RED SQUARE GLITTERED IN SCARLET AND GOLD

Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1947, Page 5

RED SQUARE GLITTERED IN SCARLET AND GOLD

Received Saturdav 32.5 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 7. Tlic ehinies oi' tlic Kremlin broadcast bv Mom-ow radio, sigualled the opening in Ihe iied Sqtiare, oi' Moscow 's great-e.-t mililary ])arade in .honour of the 30 th anui versary of the Kussian Repubiic, state agency reports from Moscow. The iied Square glittered in scar let anil gold under a iight powdering oi snow.

Telegranis of greeting have been pouring into the Kreniiia from scores oi internat ioual leaders ineluding Mr. Attlee and President Trunian. The ligure thirty gleamed in electric bulbs on the Kremlin 's facade, surrouuded by emblems oi the Union Republics and giant portraits of Lanin and .Stalin. As the i-hinies ended Marshall Nikolai Btilagiiin, Minister of the Armed Fore es, galloped on to the Square and while the Russian leaders watehed from a speeially erected tribune the review of the troops, an orchestra of 1300 played as Dulganin, after the inspecti'in, lroiint ed Ihe tribune. Jle remindeo ihe assembled people of thousands of liussjan ai-hievements sinee the October Rcvoiutiun and liussia today, sai-i Bulganin, had a first class army armed with the most advanced Stalinist science and the latest military technique but while capitalist sources were })Ianning a new imperialist war, Russia was conducting a struggle for peace and securitv.

Artillerv salvoes lired as he iinished and a military parade began, Ihe troops marching in fonnation past Lenin's tonil) to the music of the enormous niassed band. A eivilian demonstration followed the military parade. Moscow radio, describing the mareh past, iuade no reference to anv new tyjies of guns, tanks or to aiiy 'Air Force disjilay. •"■bmui'trneous celebrations were held m cities and towns tli rough out Russia.