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Italians Preparing For War Of Short Duration, Says Signor Mussolini

COULD MOBILISE 9,000,000 MEN:

GREAT SUB. FLEET

TALY'S WAR PREPARATIONS WERE DESCRIBED BY SIGNOR

LY ON THE ESTIMATES FOR THE ARMED FORCES.

"We aim," said the Duce, "at preparing men and material for a war of short duration.”

hind

Frontiers. Preparations been made to "seal hermetically" certain Alpline passes, after which the whole of the Alps would be impassable.

mobilise

Army Italy could 8,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 85,.or 9,000,000 be- tween the ages of 18 and 55. War material was being produced in 878 factories working. interruptedly

and

un-

employing

580,033 hands, subjected to military discipline.

Navy By 1911 Itay would

have eight battleships, four of

them new. Ilaly to-day had the most powerful submarine fleet in the world. All naval bases in the Central and Eastern Mediter- ranean had been specially re- Inforced

Air Force,-Italy had several thousands of aeroplanes, "nearly Her all of them very modern." C.It.32 planes "had played havoc Rata and with faster Curtiss

of 'planes in the skies Spalt Under conscription Italy could mobiilse between 30,000 pilots.

20,000 and

The Duce, in one passage of his speech, described war

as "The supreme event in the lives of peoples."

In the course of his speechjat, Ethlopla-presented exceptional dimeulles and assumed a Continental Signor Mussolini said:-

character.

"It is my intention that all these men who had the experience of one, two, or even three wars shall con-

races,

SIGNOR MUSSOLINI War in The Supreme Event

Demoralising War From The Skies

RADIO

BROADCAST

World Affairs and Other London Relays

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Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on Frequencies of $45 k.c's. 9.52 m.c's. per second.

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service f Intercession from St. John's Cathe dral,

12.30 B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra and Lawrence Tibbett (Haritone).

"Prince Igor"-Polovtsi March, Act 3 (Borodin-Rimsky Korsakov)...... The B.B.C. Symphony Orch, cond. by Sir Adrian Boult; Song of The Fien (Goethe- Moussorgsky); Pilgrim's

Op. 47, No. 5 Song.

(Tolstol---

Lawrence Tibbett;

Tehalenspiegels Lustige Strelche,

.....

,The

Op. 28 (Richard Strauss). B.B.C. Symphony Orch. cond. by Fritz Busch.

1.0 Local

Weather Report.

Time

Signal

and

1.03 Musical Comedy Selections. "Dall At The Savoy"-Vocal Gems.

(Hammerstein and Abraham)..... Light

Opera

Company: Home and

Beauty Selection...Adelphi Theatre Orchestra conducted by Francis Col- linson; Helen-Act 2: "Des Gatten Ehre zu bewahren" (Offenbachi). Friedel Schuster (Soprano) with Orchestra; Twenty-Five Years of Musical Comedy No. 2-1823 to 1035 ....Geraldo and His Orchestra with N. Hall, C. Grantham and M. Rey. 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press. Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.40 Variety,

t

Plano Solo Dainty Debutante (C. Scott

Wood; Piccadilly Playtime Ross- (Lench-Evans)......Patricia

"Exactly 13 years have passed since the day when I had the honour of speaking before you stitute at the right moment one or on problems of a military char more armies for manoeuvre or as- acter. From that day to this sault. So while the glorious veterans there has been a compass which of the World War who took vic- has guided our path, a goal torious measure of traditionally war-

lice

such as the Austrian and towards which we have daily the Hungarian-decline, their sons directed our energies.

and their grandsons rise up to follow in the Central and Eastern Mediter-gency landing grounds, and an un-borough (Piano); Vocal-I'm Feelin' (From "Broadway the words to muke the armed forces obvious anxiety of surpassing them." Together with the bases much work grounds, not to mention depots for Melody of 1938"): Yours And Mine

"This goal can be summarised in the example of their elders, with the ranean have been specially reinforced, specifiable number of hidden landing Like Million

has been done for depots of liquid oil and fuel and explosives of the of the nation ever more efficient and

"Broadway Melody of 1938") (From fuel.

most destructive power. ever more capable of inspiring fear.

"War from the air must be con-Hildegarde with Orch.; Orches "I have to inform you that The Duce spoke of establishments

tra Flattergeister Waltz "After 13 years I wish to sum working uninterruptedly for the arm-have at home sufficient crude oil for ducted in such a way as to throw

Delirien Hohne); Strauss-arr. up what has been done for the ed forces-878 in number, with 580,- consumption over a long period of

confusion into the dispositions of Wallz (Jos: Strause-art. Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. 033 workers subjected to

the enemy, to dominate his sky, and military operations. I shall begin with the Army, which discipline. has the task of defending our land

"We aim at preparing men and tions, for surface craft, and for tar frontiers, and let me add im-material for a war of short duration. pedoes." mediately that the word "defence

876 WAR FACTORIES

Carc

we

"The same can be said for munt-

ITALIAN AIR POWER

and at the same time defend itself;

the

serve for day and night bombing:"and

not

Orchestra Mascotte;

(Jos

(Van

to sap the morale of his people. Yodelling Working "The whole technique of bombing Dusen); It's Party Time Again (Van has been improved, and therefore the Dusen).

Van Dusen with

possibility of hitting the target, even... Georghe Snake Char

it it is in movement, has been in- creased,

Let 'Er Go-Fox- MerFox-Trot; Trot....Nat Gonella and His Geor- "For active anti-aircraft we must count, in the first place, on Gonella; Orchestra-You Took The multiplied reprisals, on interceptors, Words Right Out Of My Heart (Froin where they can be bad, and on the

"Big

Henry Broadcast of 1939'). fire of artillery and machine-guns.

defence glans with vocal refrain by Nat

to wait, until the eleventh hour."

SERVICE IN SPAIN

The Duce paid a tribute to the blackshirt malitia, "who have been

3.15 Close Down, 5.0-03 European Programme. 8.03-11.0 Chinese Programme. 5.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra

(a) Fifi; (b) True Confession; (c) Angel; (d) Jublice

interval of recorded dance 5.15 musie from ZBW.

6.20 (a) Always and Always; (b)

Sec

it swing.

5.35 Interval of recorded dance

"For this reason too much XTILNÉ not be interpreted in A can never be bestowed on the in- Tracing the post-war history of the Ilmited sense-often the best de dividual training of the soldier and Italian Air Force, Signor Mussolint fence is the offensive.

the collective training of the units said:

"Halian aviation to-day is one of ALPS "HERMETICALLY SEALED in close and open order.

"Infantry can never be sufficiently the first in the world. Several thousands of planes, nearly all of "In the matter of frontiers I have supported by guns, for it has always

them very modern. form the total taken steps to guarantee considerable been, and will always be, the queen

of our Air Force. aids to security for Italy. When cer- of battle.

"As for pussive defence, the best Jacques (Britain's Champion Dancer hermetically "Mechanisation must not be push- tain passes have been

This too can be summed up in consists in thinning out from the great of 1934-38) and His Correct Dance sealed-which is now being done ed beyond a certain limit under three words-aeroplanes, men, bases centres of population all those and Tempo Orchestra.

55,000 the whole of the rest of the great penalty of its advantages being com- There are at present about

workers in many factories at work they are very many-who are not circle of the Alps is impassable, and promised. that not only in the winter months. "In Fascist Italy the problem of on the construction of aeroplanes and strictly compelled to live there.

"I say here and now that all those united command-which is torment-air engines. These factories are nowho can organise their existence in tie fortification, traced out by God The political and strategical conduct of the Po, but they are also situated in the open country will do well not kong Hotel

"Under the shelter of this gigan-ing other countries has been solved. longer concentrated only in the valley the smaller cities, in the villages, and from the Hoof Garden of the Hong- for thousands of years, a people of war is established by the Head of the aim of our aeronaut

In Central and Southern Italy. Ilve and develop whose numerical the Government. Its application អ

utical en- mass already puts it apart from entrusted to the Chief of the General gineers is to produce an aeroplane Russia in the first place in Europe. Staff and to the organisations de- which can serve for reconnaissance, while li is one of the most homo-pendent on him.

Bob White: (c) I'd Like To "History including our own to produce the bomber, which can geneous in, the world,

given proof of their valour, fighting Saimon of Samon; (d)Now they call. ahows

discord between that "Within the current your Raly political and the military conduct of to produce a fighter of high speed, herolcally in Africa and in will have more than 44,000,000 in-

Spain.... has always been fatal. In but also of great manoeuvring power. habitants. In ten

docs not "Our CR 32 'planes although not "From what I have said a convic- reach 50,000,000 in the territory of Fascist Italy this danger

exist. In Italy war will be con-

5.45 (a) Josephine; (b) I'm like a the mother country alone.

ducted, as it was in Africa, under faster Curtiss and Rata 'planes in the anyone who dared to touch the rights fish out of water; (c) Silhouetted in

so fast-have played havoc with the tion will arise in your minds that music from 23W. "It is necessary to bear these the orders of the King by one single skies of Spain.

und interests of our country would

(d) Let that be a fundamental facts in mind when one man--by the man who is speaking

the Moonlight; "In alteraft construction we at find an immediate and resolute re lesson to speaks of armies and armed men. to you if this grave task is reserved at reaching complete self-sufficiency ply from an entire people in arms on 60 Studio The Children's Hour. Without men there can be no batta by destiny for him again.

We are tending to realise the greatest land, by sen, and in the air.

7.0 Bach-Suite No. 2 in B Minor lions, and many men are needed to

margin of security..

"Just because much has been done for Flutes and Strings. form the big battalions.

NAVAL STRENGTH

we must tell ourselves that still more

Played by Willem Mengelberg and AERIAL WARFARE TECHNIQUE

remains to be done, and we shall do "Land war is facilitated or other- 55 years, Italy can reach a figure of 8,000,000 of mobilised troops. By wise by the greater or lesser degree "There exists in Italy the possibility it whatever the cost. So we intends Concertgebouw Orchestra.

7.28 Closing local Stock Quota- in general, but, above

tions. adding young men of 18, 19, and 20 of command of the sea which is pas of having a body of 20,000 to 30,000, to ensure peace

7.30 London Kelay-At The Black the Bigure of 9,000,000 is sessed. Italy-above all Italy-has by means of conscription, in the Air all, our own peace,

intro- "We reject Illusions and Utoplas. Dog the duty even more than the right to Force, which only we have

en-and it is for this that we have left

Mr.. Wilkes at home in his own the shop which sells them at Geneva. "We arc this mass is destined for service be

creating IL The problem thusiasm of the young.

"All the ground organisation of the "What has always counted, and stili bar-parlour. Presented by Pascoe bases, men, put-ships, hind the lines--which is important, can be simply

The post-war

war argument between Air Force is new complete. Many counts, in the relations between na-Thornton and S. E. Reynolds. especially in view of the character!

battleships and

airports are ready, and so are emer-tions is their power in war.” warfare is assuming there still re- those who upheld main between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 those who favoured a large number front-line fighters,

of small craft is finished. It may be "You camet but agree, comrades, that battleships are not enough that it is an imposing maas.

"On March of this year we could have mobilised in full and within a brief period of time a number of men greater than that which was en- gaged in the battle of Vittorio Veneto (against Austria in the Great War).

"Calling en men aged from 21 to

Sculating that 50 per cent, of possess a navy worthy of this name,duced, and as a result of the

Libya,

the or

Darticipation volunteers in the war in Spain.

EXPERIENCE OF WAR

of

ما

form a navy, but it is still more cer- tain that you cannot form a navy with a cloud of small craft.

"Even without the permission which was ceded to 115 by the Washington Conference, we would have ended by ballding bailleships. We decided in the first place to modernise uur old ones.

"Two of them, the Cavour and the)

Record Of Civilisation Sealed For 6,000 Years

8.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements,

8.03 Chinese Programme--Studio Concert.

11.0 Close Down.

ZEK

Radio Programme Broadcast by on a Frequency of 040 Kilo- cycle Tchaikovsky-Aurora's Wed-

8.03

Ballet Music.

monie

In the year 8103 a group of scientists may break into a subterranean vault near here to find a complete record of civili- Kurtz. zation as it existed in 1938.

of

Philhar-

by The Landon Orchestra conducted by Efrem

de

"This shows you how ridiculous

8.28 Gaspar Cassado ("Cello). is the claim of certain circles be-

Melodic (Tscholkowsky-Op. 42, yond the alps that The African

The vault, of granite and stainless would tell the purpose and list con-

No. 8); Humoreske (Dvorak-Op. War has weakened us, or the in- |

101, No. 7). OPEN IN 8103 A.D. administration building stilation of two Army Corps in Cesare, are already entered into ser- steel, is located under what is now tents of the crypt.

vice. The other two, the Duillo and the

8.37 Tenor and Soprano Solos, Another suggestion is that some the Doria, are now on the slips. For Oglethorpe University.

La Mattinata (Leoncavallo); A Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, youthful sort of merchanical device be butt have the other four battleships we

of president of the utilised the maximum

university, has and placed in the main museums and Marecchiare (Di Giacomo-Tosti). tonnage

Enzo

Muro Lomunto Washington-35,000 tons.

assembled a vast collection of books, universities. When the year 8103

Mia Neapolitan (Tenor); Mannella

O Sole Vittoria Veneto The

and

the pictures, samples, models and phono-arrives, the device would announce "All this, on the

Song contrary,

(Trans. Giannini); Folk vault,

busolina formidably reinforced us, and not Littorio have been launched, The graph records to be sealed in the the location of the

Dr. Jacobs has set

Mio (DI 60 centurica as the date for opening the

Giannini (So Sweet Melody as is the case when one wins, but are being laid down. also in the weapons which we have "Between 1940 and 1841, and even be placed in glass and stainless steel crypt gradually replaced and perfected and enriler if possible, the nerve centre containers, which will be evacuated the first recorded date in lilstory, the Night'); I Mean To Say I Love You

(Tenor); in the men who have had the great of our fleet will be constituted by of air and filled with some inert gas beginning of the Egyptian calendar, (From Give Us This Night rende experience of a war iived through eight ships of the line, totalling about such as hellum or argon to prevent to 1936, when the vault was Argh Jan Klepara

240,000 tons.

has

only from the morale point of view, other two the Rama and the Impero, the material in the crypt will hence cause. It is 8107 years from Of Night (From 'Give Us This

and won.

SUPREME' IN SUBMARINES

started. Counting' ahead 6167 years 2007. › "Mor). ...........Ninon Veilin

deterioration.

The vault sell is nearly completed. From 1930 gives the year 810, K.] gingers'

ot im-

"This is the only army which has

It is a tomb-like room beneath the A Salem, O., scientist, Dr. had this experience since the World

has perfected a "I confirm to the Senate that main building, with granite walls 2 Peters, War. Side by side with great soldiers

images Italy has to-day the most power-feet thick. The celling is 2 feet thick presting photographic.. -Budoglio, De Bono, Graziant

ful submarine flest in the world, and its floor is the granite bedrock of metal, which makes it possible to there are numbers of generals who

keep have fought or fought again in a war.

"We have outdistanced everyone, the Appalachian Mountains.

Potera

supervise That is to say, they have once more and in such a way, that it will be

will

9.0 London Relay The B.B.C.

(B) Conductor, Leslie Woodgate. Five Lyrics of Herrick:

(a) Cupid; (b) A Dirgo; (c) Mora- Violets (Roger Quilter).

Three Elizabethan Songs: (Continued on Page 5.)

been tested in this supreme event. In very difficult, it not impossible, to granite blocks and sealed with a the filing and sea stained the co- Sweet Day; (b) The Willow Song: The doorway will be closed with logo on picture records in-ling Sòng; (d) To Electra; (c) To

the life of peuples.

catch up with us and deprive us of

specially

If

of the crypt. Stainless steel door. designed

Dr. Peters has this supremacy

The material in the vault will in- operation of the country's leading "There are thousands of officers To those who say that in future clude aims, models, pictures, micro manusfcturers, historical societies. of every rack who have lod men wars battleships will remain blocked records of all the world's important railroads, museums and libreries.

"All our work will be vain f into ballkonstrainst a warlike and in the ports, ne during the Great War, books and samples of overthing

Auch da the Ab74- 1 reply that this will not happen to from lead pencil to chewing guma the crypt is destroyed, or prematurely

Saracter

Italy it to not question of the Although no definite method of poput we are like Losty

pation of preserving the memory of the crypt "But we are counting an

sporta are | mahahijf of future generations to curb Eped upon, beveral - also use cunity of the men, indröle the hath been, i bade-of waandaa which

[being]

One proposal their curiosity and leave our crypt Hor und in every Important interum and uni- may open; it and and a complète

record of pur civilisations.

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the a

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Alessandro. Biradella.

2. M Ricordo......

3.

Goldsmith's Dhuglise." Waltz

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