Included in the First Squadron are the powerful units, Cavour, Zara, Fiume, Polo. Gorizia, Duco degu Abruzzi and Garibaldi.
The first-named is a battleship of 21,604 tons, was constructed in 1910, and has a top speed of 26 knots. The next four named are cruisers of 10,000 tons, were built in 1928 and are capable of speeds between 32 and 35 knots, According to reports reaching Paris today, practically the whole of the Italian Navy will soon be mobilized.
Important land manoeuvres are also to take place shortly in North Italy, and all frontier garrisons will participate:
The other partner in the axis, Germany, is not idle, either.
About 1,400,000 men will be under arms this summer, and 200,000 German workmen are even now engaged in fortifying the Polish frontier areas, reports claim.
French political quarters voiced fears that Germany still threatens Danzig.
They interpreted Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' recent assertion to "the value of audacity" as a menace to the Free City.—Havas.
Tokyo, June 27.
Ninety-eight Outer Mongolian wars planes were shot down in a 40- minute air-battle today, according to a Japanese official statement received here from Changchun.
Two hundred Outer (Mongolain, planes, the statement declares, flew over Lake Buir at dawn today. Japanese aeroplanes, it continues, shot Gown 98 of these machines in a 40- minutes air-battle.
Later, it states, Japanese planes raided the air base at Tomsk, 100 kilometres south of Lake Buir where they bombed and burned 30 enemy craft on the ground.
Three Japanese planes, it says, have not returned to their base—
Reuter,
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