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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MARCH 7th, 1931.
ITALY WANTS BIG AIR FORCE.. INTEREST AROUSED BY ATLANTIC.
THE FILM VAMPS. Myrna Loy Noted Player.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
THE HIGHEST OF
EYE MEN.
recent flight At left, General Italo Balbo, Italina Ain Minister and leader of the
Upper Insert, across the Atlantie, Centree of the giant planes used on the Bight. Mussolini, whu believed that the flight would stir the Italian people to a renewed interest in aviatio12.
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Brazil.
Europe is preparing to Between Africa and
It is years, Douhet hammered away al Benito Mussolint make a vigorous sand, however, that the real pur.the importance of the air force. He said the fast war proved what onslaught on the Italian parse for poses of the Hurr were twofold:
The Tewilding up the purpose, of
First To warn various coun- the next wars would be. tries of Italy's future might. perfection of mechanical devices, mighty air flert.
works, artillery Second Tn enthuse the Italian defensive That is the true meaning of the unprecedented flight of a squadron, people to such a pitch that they machine guns showed that wars, of ten Italian seaplanes from Africa to the shares of Brazil, wild he willing to bear the Dunn-so far as armies were concerned.
eial burdens necessary to Riven langer would be conflicts Italy a mighty offensive and de-strategy tensive nje fleet.
Building Fast Cruisers.
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and tactics. They would he trench wars, sloges, where armies would face each other, more or less lead- locked. Therefore the future of wars was in the air.
the Air Minister himself. by General Italo Ball, and by the ernek aleman, Captain Maddalena. The whole allan peninsula has It is the logical outcome of what shouted its warm applause. The the Dure has striven for since the whole Italian press has sung a Einminit. Having restored order
Nations could no longer be pro- is recalled and peace and industry within the pacan of praise. It that 438 years after that other country, Musulini next thought of teeted by their land armies and Italian, Christopher Columbus, making italy so strong that none their frets, he pointed out. There for the Arst time took amall wohl think thtly of attacking was the menace of aircraft. With feet of three boats across the her, and would listen to her as a these in operation. there was no Atlantic, other Italian Rid
grent power. He perforted his more front and no more rear, no same thing in afveraft. Only-and, army and auded to this the Fascist more belligerents and non-belliger- they accentuate this difference- nihta. He gave a great impulse ents, in no plaer could the citizen Columbus performed his feat with to the navy and now has under consider himself in safety. Spanish ships and crews, whereas construction cruisers which pro- workman in the factory and the clerk in the offer were exposed to the more recent deed was done in baidy will be the fastest afloat.
ofas much danger as the, soldier in Then be heard the voice Italian craft and with Italian
General Douhel, who
In the trench. crows.
charge of the Italian air forces at the end of the World War, and
the
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The ostensible purpose of the Night was to show the practi- cability of commercial flying -- who died not long ago. For ten taken off by General Balbo, Italian
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Air Minister, In the last speech the Intler made in the Italian Par
lament, he said aviation was the most powerful instrument at the disposition of modern armies and navies, and from now could be eon- sidered as the very core of martial problems. Every nation was ex- posed to attacks from the air and nona more so than italy.
In the Arst place, all the great industrial centres like Turin, Mitan and Trieste, situated in the north, are close to the frontiers and easily necessible to attack by In the next possible eneming, place, all the other great cities either are on the self-const or very close to it-Genoa, Venlee, Florence, Rome, Naples, Palermo.
Some of the italian papers add- ed to this by pointing out that in the island of Corsica, the French had an easy jumping-ul place whence French flying squadrons could take off for most of those and render dire towns
havoc. The Stampa said it mattered little if Italy had more divisions at the frontier, or a greater number of cruisers and submarines in its purts, if enemy squadrons could pounce down upon Italian cities- and bomb rentres of mobilization. great industrial plants, railway junctions, ports and warehouses.
Have Separate Air Force.
The result of all this agitation was that a new law was adopted by the Parliament. Hereafter only reconnoitering machines will be placed at the disposition of the army and navy. All combat air- craft will make part of an indie- One higher penden: aerial army. com command will have charge of all aircraft devoted to attack, pursuit and bombing. Thus will be em- bodied into actuality the axiom of Douhet:
"Let us have a forruidable avia- tion Torce and take as our doctrine of war: Resist upon land and sea in order to strike the amushing blow in the air."
Plans now are being worked out to have aerial zones which will correspond to the regions assigned to army corps. Each zone will have its own air · personnel, tech- niciuna, hangara, repair shops, bomb depots. The air force al- really possesses its own school at Caneria for the training of avia- tion officers. Shortly it will have the teaching of aerial warfare.
It is signifeant that of all the armed forces of the country, the aviation corps is the most favour- ed by the Fascial youth,
The main fly in the ointment is the matter of money, General Balbo's successful flight is expect- ed to smooth the way so that thero will be no growls when the people are asked to make financial sacri. fices for the air force.
The whole world is a breeding without any difficulty whatever and ground for screen sirens of the in so doing proved that a pust tan't future. These women who earn a necessary requisite to successful their livings by vamping the bigyamping. Myrna has absolutely no bold herpes on the silver screen dost, as that word generally is used. not necessarily hail from the large but she has a pretty good present
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Myrna is not a newcomer in the past records, the milkmaid from lown makes just as goud n serren movies by any means, nor is she vampire as the cabaret entertainer new to Hollywood, having
there from Helena shortly after en of New York.
tering school. She started in pie- Estelle Taylor, for example, was lures back in 1925 when everyone burn in Wilmington. Del. Rita: LeRoy was born in Canadaal kladly accepted their films in silent doses. And she achieved con- And Mera Loy, third of this triosklerable success although her real of very successful cinema sirens progress has been made since she first saw the light of day in
started portraying vamps in the Hefenn, Mont.
talkies.
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When away from the studio there
It's a long step from. a school jinsn't a single thing about Miss girl in the Montana capital to a Loy that suggests her screen char- screen vampire in Hollywood. But acterizations. It's a cinch that her distance freckled face, titlan hair and sympa- Myrna negotiated the
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Fellowes of the Worshipf Company of Spectacle Makers. Felluon of the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians England),
thetic green eyes don't stump her as tures after dancing in prologues at the vampire type. Neither does the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in quiet life she leads in her small Hollywood I never even dreamed of home with her mother, nor her hob.playing such parts. Of course 1 bles of sculpturing, swimming and wanted to-I think almost every horseback riding.
actress would like to--but the pos- sibility of being east for such a role "I probably was more surprised seemed too remote even to be con- than anyone else when I was signed sidered. But since I started I have for my first vampire role," Myrna played all sorts of bad women- remarks. "When i started in ple- American, Oriental and native."
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THE HUNT MEETS IN
THE VILLAGE.
After the break caused by the frost, hunting was recently resumed in England, and several packs were out again. This picture, taken
by a staff photographer of The Times shows the moet of the North Cotswold at Stanton, one of the most beautiful villages in the Cotswolds.
̈(Times copyright).