RUSSIAN EFFICIENCY
AIR EXERCISES SOLDIERS PARACHUTE EN MASSE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MINSK, September 10. (Received September 11, at 1.15 p.m.) Twelve hundred soldiers parachuted en masse from scores of aeroplanes, and landed behind the “ enemy ” lines during a mock battle. They carried 160 dismantled machine guns and ammunition. Eighteen field guns were also parachuted. The weapons were assembled within eight minutes, and the enemy was then routed by a rear attack.
Major-general Wavell, Chief of the British Mission, said he would not have believed it possible if he had not seen
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Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 9
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92RUSSIAN EFFICIENCY Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 9
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