SOVIET ARMY.
STRONGEST IN EUROPE. (BV CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND V.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 20th, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 19. The "Chicago Tribune's" Berlin edition reports that secret services reveal ' that tho Soviet army is the strongest in Europe. Its personnel is 1 ; 270,000 permanent infantry, 370,000 trained reservists, 560,000 cavalry, and 80,000 members of the Air Force, with 2000 aeroplanes, 860 of which are obsolete, but are being rebuilt and fitted with apparatus for spraying deadly poison gas, ostensibly to protect Russian forests from parasites.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 11
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