ITALY'S NAVY
TEST OF POWER COMING MANOEUVRES MEDITERRANEAN SEA ASSEMBLY OFF LIBYA LAND LINK WITH EGYPT By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright ROME, March 10 After flying from Rome to Gaeta, Signor Mussolini embarked on an armed motor-boat and boarded the cruiser Pola for Tobruk, Libya. The town was decorated and the citizens cheered the Pola as she departed, escorted by the cruisers Fiume, Gara and Gorizia.
Several Ministers accompanied II Duce, who, after arrival at Tobruk, will give the signal for the start of naval manoeuvres, in which 60 vessels will participate. The object of the manoeuvres is to ascertain whether Italian warships between Sicily and Libya can control through-going shipping.
Signor Mussolini Avill spend a fortnight in Tripoli, and open the colonial fair. Ho will also inaugurate a highway 1100 miles long from Egypt to Tunis, completed last year in order to enable Italy to mass troops on the Egyptian border in the event of trouble with Britain.
II Duce, after excursions to the interior, will hold a review at the conclusion of the manoeuvres.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22675, 12 March 1937, Page 11
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