Foreign News: The Royal Air Force

Mussolini has created an independent Air Force equal in importance to the Army and Navy.

Colonel Moizo, a delegate to the Washington Arms Conference, will take command of the new force and will be promoted to the rank of general.

The terms of pay and promotion have a communistic clause. Officers and soldiers will receive the same rates of pay as for corresponding ranks in the Army; but all ranks will receive 900 lire a month on active service, the Government holding that " the life of a soldier is of the same value as...

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