Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 33, 26 February 1936 — MUSSOLINI WILL RUSH NEW PLANES [ARTICLE]

MUSSOLINI WILL RUSH NEW PLANES

Pi'umiei' Mussoliiii plana to eou--Btnici at least. 1,5,0(3 -atrplanets before . of b3-inging Italy's total air ~stre-ngth to 5,500 planes, it reported relial)3y Monday. At leahl 3,000 of the naDon's airplane.s , will be of the lastest ty];e. Factories hre \vorking day and. night iirod.ucing £'ve uew' planes.claily, most oi' theiuof type "Sl." This type is a bomber eapahle. of 248 miles per liour wliil.e curryiug three tons of bōinbs, . Some of Lhe new ltallan. pursu"t planes wei'e described as cupa-bie of exceeding 4UO kilomet.cr s an hour. They carry tlu"ee to i'ive ro,tatingma-' eliine gutis. i, ■. _ The new type , planes are being plaeeul -in honie; service, replacing older craft. Four hundr<!d of the ohlei' lyt)c plaiii'K liav« heen sent to Al'i'iea i'or -Korvu*e against Klhiopia. In. vie\v of t.he fact Ethiopia has ■furnis'hed"no opposition to Ttaly, observerf! agrc« 't.h-e vast. strong!liening of ltalv'R ui-r force is designed to meet a possible emergency in Europc.