Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-08 | Page 2 | Italians Rush Navy Building

ITALIANS RUSH RUSHS S NAVY BUILDING ROME Jan 8 Italy UPI P Italy intends to rush her ambitious warship building program so as to have the new vessels in the water a a. full year before completion of the recently approved American British and French programs Naval experts asserted in newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper articles today that fascist organization and alacrity of f fas fascist fascist fas- fas cist workers would guarantee the projects project's completion by 1940 Newspapers published dispatches from London and Paris describing surprise and anxiety in those capitaLs capitals capitals cap cap- on receiving news of the Italian Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian program These articles said Great Britain was especially worried worried wor wor- ried ned over ver the strength of the fleet Premier Mussolini soon will have II 11 duce announced today that construction construction con con- would begin immediately on two ton battleships 12 destroyers destroyers destroyers de de- de- de and an unspecified number of submarines to give Italy supremacy supremacy supremacy su su- su- su in the Mediterranean over the usual British or French fleets there S This surprise building program was regarded as fascist Italy's answer answer answer an an- to what has been described as the naval race of democratic countries