THE RED ARMY
IS IT A BLUFF?
(United Press Assooiation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
PARIS, April 4
“Moscow's Rod Army is the sheerest bluff,” asserts a usually well-in-formed Russian newspaper published here. “The Soviet Government now has half a million men armed and well disciplined. They are loyal, but the Soviet financial machinery is hopeless. There are no reservs and the present stocks of war material would not last more than a fortnight. The writer points out that the refusal of the Bolshevist system to pi t iv,it the accumulation of capital may : -.e politically advantageous to the Government because it precludes the development ol hostile wealthy ele meats, hut the reverse side of tins System is that the country is destitute of those reserves without whie; 1 it would be impossible to sustain a military campaign.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 6
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135THE RED ARMY Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 6
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