AIR POWER
ITALY’S POSITION Could Mobilise One Thousand ’Planes in War Time FOUR HUNDRED BUILT LAST YEAR. (By Telegrapft—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received March 25, 5.5 p.m. (The limes). ROME, March 24. "Italy possesses 1800 aeroplanes, o2 which 1000 could be used immediately for war purposes, and 4’20 were constructed last year,” said Signor Balbo, Undersecretary for Air, in the Chamber of Deputies, when explaining the expenditure of £7,608,000 for military and civil aviation.
He claimed that Italy held third place in European civil aviation, being surpassed only by France and Germany.
Signor Balbo said Italy was opening five new lines in June, including connections with Spain, Germany and Tripoli, and recalled that Italy held the height and speed records. He declared that they aimed at capturing the records for distance and duration flights held by the United States. Signor Mussolini, in a message to the nation on the ninth anniversary of the creation of the Fascisimo draws attention to the forthcoming enrolment of 80,000 young Italians. He says that thus the yearly base of the pyramid enlarges, millions of men forming an armed guard for the Fascist revolution.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20105, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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