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INCREASED IN RUSSIA PRODUCTION OF MUNITIONS AND ARMAMEN IS. TRADES UNION NOTIFICATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, June 26. The All Union Central Council of Trades Unions, in a message to workers, says: “Sunday holidays will be abolished and working hours increased from six or seven to eight. We must strengthen the Red Army, Navy and Air Force, and also augment armaments. The increase in hours will give the country hundreds of thousands of tons more oil, coal, ore metal, thousands of new machine tools, guns, planes, tanks and other machines.”
FRONTIER GUARD RUSSIANS IN LITHUANIA. KAUNAS, June 25. The police chief declared that Russian troops will guard the LithuanianGerman frontier. A message from Tallinn states that . the new Prime Minister of Estonia, Professor Vares, broadcasting to the I nation, said: “We are children of the i Russian revolution, and history has fixed our place among other peoples near our friend, Soviet Russia which is the only State in the world which respects the independent existence of each people.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 4
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