WAR TESTS
MAJOR POWERS BRITISH PUNS ARMY MANOEUVRES ITALY AND FRANCE ALPINE EXERCISES By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON. August 8 The major Powers which are not engaged on active military intervention are joining others in theoretical tests of military and air strength by means of manoeuvres. Britain's air manoeuvres will be supplemented extensively on# land when the Army's most important exercises since the war are begun to-morrow. They will last for six weeks.
The closest attention will be paid to mechanised divisions. King Victor of Italy and Signor Mussolini are watching unusually modest exercises in the Abruzzi region, employing only 22,000 troops. However, highly mechanised French Alpine manoeuvres will be begun to-morrow in mountainous country and will feature mechanisation and aircraft co-operation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23112, 10 August 1938, Page 13
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