Rome, Mar. 2.
An increase of 100,000,000 lire is shown in the Army Estimates for the 1038-80 financial year, which have been presented to Parliament, compared with the figure for the current year.
The estimated expenditure totals 2,612,000,000 lire, The report accompanying the Estimates says:
"AN the world is arming to-day. The States ruled by so-called democratic regimes justify their armaments as the supreme guarantee of peace.
"But Italy, more than any other nation, has always brought a realistic and fruitful contribution to a radical solution of the problems of peace."
'The report adds that a new organization of troops in the Aegean Islands hasbeen created to raise the garrison to the level of the islands' importance in the Mediterranean.—Reuter.
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