MASS AIR ATTACKS
y NEW ITALIAN TACTICS STEPS TO MAKE WAR " HUMAN " V ' ■ LONDON. March 1.7 An .illuminating passage from General G. Valle's speech in the Chamber of Deputies justifying Signor Mussolini's concept of mass attacks by aeroplanes dealing hammer blows on sectors where they could, do the most damage is given fby tho Rome correspondent of tho jjTimes. - ■ • ■i; Ordinary frontal attacks in war, General Vaile said, led only to stagnation 'and the prolongation of the conflict. most logical way of "humanising" ' warfare consisted of efforts to shorten the struggle, even at a very high cost. For that reason, Italy was forming homogeneous air units and adapting the air corps as a development ot air divisions, each consisting of 100 machine* and each carrying a ton of bombs, with a range of 1250 miles and a speed of 250 miles per hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 16
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