An armoured train equipped with six-fnch guns will shortly operate along the line between Rome and Genoa.
The train is intended to guard the line from attack by sea and alr, especially the stretch along the coast between Civicavecchia and Piso and the neighbourhood of the naval base [at Spezia.
Another train equipped with anti-gas devices will begin a tour of southern Italy in October, to demonstrate in every town which it touches the best means of combatting gas attacks. This is being done with the special approval of Signor Mus-
Meanwhile, propaganda designed! to prepare the populace for gas attacks is being carried out by means jof gramophone records.—Reuter.
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