Spezzia (pronounced Spetsia), when* Signor Mussolini, watched naval and aerial manoeuvres, re on the Gulf of Genoa and 50 miles of the city of Genoa, amid fort-crowned, hills. It is the principal station of the Italian fleet, and has an arsenal, docks and shipyards in which some of the largest Italian warships have been built. Spezzia is a bathing and winter resort, and in its bay Shelley, the poet, was drowned in 1822. The population is nearly 120,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22650, 15 August 1935, Page 10
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