RED RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1931, Page 5

RED RUSSIA

SOVIETS LATEST CRY. THAT WAR IS INEVITABLE. (Times). (Received 9.35 a.in.) LONDON, February iff. A Riga correspondent i-epoccs tint th<3 celebrations of tbe thirtc itli nr rivet sary of the Red Army, .-Is-) '..lie prolongation of the militarist .m - .*' l 1 begun in January in conne g.i ,n wiili the birthday of Vorashilofl, Commissar of the Rer Army.

The Soviet has organised a more intensive anti-'oreigni campaign. Wireless stations started, operations yesterday broadcasting a message to workers throughout Soviet Russia, declaring:

“War is inevitable. Capitalist Governments are feverishly preparing for an invasion of Russia, under General Weygand, whom the French Government have already selected as Com-mander-in-Chief of the coming war, in preparation for which it recently promoted him to the command of the French forces.” An hour later the message was repeated, with the addition that “Weygand is considered the most suitable appointment, owing to his close personal touch with the Polish and Roumanian armies in the past ten years. He participated in the Russo-Polish War in 1920.”

The message added:—“War might break out any day. Workers must accelerate the five year plan to the maximum befcnuso the Soviet wants factories and laboratories to fight the enemy, and the products of agriculture to feed the army. The motor industry must especially he accelerated, owing to the great part tanks and aeroplanes play in modern war.” Platform, press, cinema and wireless are all mobilised to carry on the agitation.

Military experts are visiting the schools throughout the Soviet to report on the efficiency of military instruction and training in them. Pionarcharsky, the Soviet’s disarmament delegate at Geneva, has issued a statement congratulating Meirhold. who organised the campaign.