WAR ANTICIPATED.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11

WAR ANTICIPATED.

MESSAGE TO SOVIET WORKERS. I M——» (CKIIEU PiIESS-' ' The Riga correspondfot "The I'idies" roporta that of the 13t;h anniversary, of-the Itqd Army, and also to prolong thejfflilitarisb agi>. t&tioh begun in 3&snatty ia'tSOhttMuoft with th© birthday' bf sf. .Vbroshitofli, » Commissar of the Bed Army, the,SovietV : has organised & more, intensive dnti-' r foreign cfe'inpafgn. . < The wireless stations started; tioiw yefctdi'day, rbrottdpfurfcing * mesaage to the -workers throughout Soviet Russia declaring: "War is inevitable, * The capitalist . Governments* fever-.. . ishly preparing for the invasidh' Of . Russia under Weygand, -whom the Fretich GotferhfflenJ; > has already, ' selected M Comntander-inrOhief, top the' coining war, in preparation for which it recently ptfoffiotiea hifn to the ctaft- , mand of the JYehch foveas." " ' 'V - An hour lat<Sf' the ni&ssage' was repeated, with the'addition eial W6ygand is»considered the m<?st suitable appointment, owing to.hisclodfi gsrsonar touch with' Polish'and umanian atohles-in the past 10 years. He paHicipbted in the - lltiaso-Polfch war in, 1920." * . , V • i iThe message added: "War .might break out any day. * The workers must* accelerate _ the Five-Year - i'lfrn, to thd maximum,' because the Soviet - wants' factories and laboratories to fight tha' enemy, and products, of agriculture to feed the army. The taotoi* industry inust especially be accelerated] owing to the great part tractors, tanks, alio! aeioplanea will play in modern ;war'»" The platform) Press, cinema/,' and wireless are all mobilised to earfy on the agitation. Military experts ate visiting the) .schools throughout the Soviet Union to report "on the. 6m-.* cjency of tlje military instriiotioh .and training given in them. M, Pidnarcharsky,. the Soviet's disarmament delegate at Geneva, has issued, a Bt&te-r', nient congratulating M. MeierholidJ •who organised the campaign.^'"the. Times" Cable. GENEVA REPORT DENIED.

MOSCOW, February 24., ■ The Soviet Embassy officially de-r', scribes .the report from Geneva that, there wore 15,000,000 military;, trainees on February J.sth as "a' complete' invention, based on a docuffiteriV whifch' 1 nevdr existed." _