ARMY OF RUSSIA
CALL TO RESERVES TROOP TRAINS LEAVE THEORIES ADVANCED BORDER MENACE FEARED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 11, 9 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 8. It is stated in unimpeachable sources in Moscow that the calling up of Soviet Army Reserves began on Friday and possibly before then. The authorities are requisitioning horses and motor car£ belonging to civil organisations. Doctors and nurses have been registered and are being instructed in duties in the event of emergencies. The Tass News Agency states that parts of several classes are being called up as a result of the PolishGerman war “which acquires a wide and menacing character.” Another message from Moscow states that the Commissariat of Foreign Trade have been authorised to limit and prohibit exports to countries where legislation, administrative acts and currency restrictions create conditions unfavourable to the .Soviet’s foreign trade. The correspondent of the New York .Times states that apparently troop trains on Friday, night left Moscow on what is normally the eastern route, and it is not impossible that they then took a westerly direction. Those called up include individual members of the 1901-1911 classes. A number of doctors have been ordered from Moscow and others have been recallea from vacations, thus tending to confirm that the preparations were not planned, tout are dictated by alarm at the unexpectedly rapid progress of the Germans towards the Russian front.
Should the Western front offensive relieve the pressure on Poland, enabling the halting of the German advance, the Soviet may relax precautions.
The New York Times correspondent says that some foreign diplomatic officials view Sbviet activity as preparations to an advance through the Wilno Gap, leading through difficult marshy country, . towards Poland, cutting off and seizing Polish troops in the north-east. Others, believe the Soviet is concerned with the rapid progress of the Germans and the prospect of their reaching the Sbviet frontier, and is therefore making defensive preparations. - ' _____
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 10
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