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...another month. Possibly inspired by Italy's formidable demonstration in the Balbo flight, France's air cruise was ordered by bespectacled Air Minister Pierre Cot. The full complement contained 30 planes which started from Istres Airdrome in southern France. One cracked up in Spain, another in Morocco. At desolate Bidon V (Gastank No. 5) three more planes had to hang back with engine trouble, caught up again in Upper Senegal...
...without causing the pale eyebrows of General Maxime Weygand to lift. Great General Max, the Army's executive Commander-in-Chief, holds that "in France colonial troops become easy victims of Communism and alcoholism." He announced last week that he will make an inspection tour of Morocco. Promptly the Paris Matin predicted that when General Max returns he will further deprecate the value of colonial troops, will ask for an increase in the period of military training served by all young Frenchmen from one year...
...smoke puts a few centesimos in the pockets of Juan March. Never able to read or write, he laid the foundation of his fortune by selling bootlegged cigarets made from smuggled tobacco. In an effort to collect a little money from him Dictator Primo de Rivera gave him the Morocco tobacco monopoly. Juan March bribed Morocco officials right & left, continued to use smuggled tobacco brought to his factories by Moorish tribesmen whom he is supposed to have supplied with arms...
Natives of Algeria and Morocco, the apes had run wild on Gibraltar long before Britain's Sir George Rooke snatched it from Spain in 1704. Their presence was once thought to prove that a land link between Europe and Africa existed as late as the Pleistocene period. But scientists grew doubtful when they could find no monkey fossils in Gibraltar's honeycomb of caves. Natives explained that easily: the apes had a secret sub-Mediterranean tunnel by which they returned to Africa to die. Scientists decided that the apes must have been imported by Romans or Moors...
...Ministry an nounced a program to reassure her uneasy citizens. The French air force will stage a mass flight of its own. Twenty-two bombers will set out in October from Istres Airdrome in southern France. They will cross the Mediterranean to the west coast of Morocco, fly down the coast to the shoulder of Senegal, thence inland across the French Sudan, nearly to the Congo. Finally, north over the Sahara to the Mediterranean again, and home - 15,600 mi. in all. Volunteer officers & crew were called to begin training, at Istres. Like Balbo's men, they will...