London, Aug. 7.
The vigilance of the British Navy is believed here to have caused Rome io decide to launch a combined offensive from both Abyssinia and Libya at once.
The Italians realize the difficulty of maintaining their military establishments in these areas, and are determined to launch an attack before their overseas forces are weakened by their British blockade.
Although there are approximately 2 quarter of a million Italian troops in Libya, only a comparatively small percentage of these are available for actual fighting, owing to the fact that an advance across the waterless desert necessitates an abnormal number of men being detailed for the maintenance "of lines of com-
Soviet Fleet Manoeuvres Reported in Pacific The National Broadcasting Corpora New York, Aug. 7.
tion today heard the British Broadcasting Corporation report that the Russian Fleet, including submarines, heavy and light naval units and ai craft. had moved out into the Pacifi for large scale manoeuvres.—United Press.
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