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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balboa lay the Blue defensive squadron under Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard aboard the Arkansas, only battleship in the line. To him had been assigned seven light cruisers, 22 destroyers, the giant aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, a flock of submarines, the dirigible Los Angeles (used for the first time by international consent in war games). To drive the Black fleet back from a 1,000-mile jungle-fringed coast line Admiral Willard relied chiefly on a force of 225 battle planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Fleet Problem 12 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Libya for over a year Italian troops have been waging private war against revolting Senussi tribesmen. Last stronghold of the Senussi is the Oases of Kufra, 350 miles across the open desert from the oasis of Zella, Italian base. Three columns, containing several regiments of native troops and a squadron of armored cars, escorted by a squadron of airplanes, moved against Kufra by forced march. Last week they struck. Every man and boy who could hold a rifle fought in the Senussi ranks but they were no match for planes and armored cars. After three hours the Senussi broke, fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Avalanches; Senussi | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Hero of the battle in the Italian press was 32-year-old Amadeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Guiseppe Giovanni, Duke of Apulia, cousin of the King, son of the Duke of Aosta, who commanded a squadron of pursuit planes. While the defeated Senussi, with their wives, children, oxen and asses fled like Joseph and Mary into Egypt, Duke Amadeo harried them mightily from the sky, raked them with blazing machine guns, whistling bombs. "Along the route," cabled a correspondent, "water wells at Matea, Bisciara, and elsewhere are filled with bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Avalanches; Senussi | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Agricola Italiana half a billion lire ($26,300,000), which resulted in an eventual loss to the bank of seven times its capital. No charge was made against Financier Gualino when he was seized last week. His arrest was made not by police but by the Turin Fascist "political squadron." His name was not inscribed on the jail register, only his initials, "R. G.," and the laconic explanation: "For motives of public securitv." Presumably Fascist higher-ups are involved, and in such cases the "purging" (as it is called in Italy) is always accomplished in profound silence. The party, absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Purging the Party | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Barter. Last week General Italo Balbo's squadron of transatlantic seaplanes (TIME, Jan. 19) flew on from Natal to Rio de Janeiro, whence it was reported that the eleven Savoia-Marchetti ships would be delivered to the Brazilian Government in exchange for $618,420 worth of coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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