RED ARMY TACTICS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 7

RED ARMY TACTICS

REVOLUTIONARY PROPAGANDA DISTRIBUTION IN POLAND BUFFER STATE EXCLUDED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. CoDiTight) NEW YORK, Sept. 26 The distribution of revolutionary leaflets in the Ukraine and White Russian areas in Poland has surprised circles which believed that the Soviet had abandoned the spreading of revolutionary principles and was pursuing a purely Napoleonic policy as a genuine ally of Germany, says the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times. Should the Red Army pursue similar revolutionary tactics in the purely Polish areas which it is taking over from the Germans, it would finally dispose of the theory that Germany and the Soviet had agreed upon a buffer Polish State, which would demand that purely Polish territory now occupied by Russia should be added to that occupied by Germans.

It is difficult to imagine Germany allowing a revolutionary Soviet system to be established in territory occupied by Germans, says the correspondent, therefore a buffer State seems to be excluded.

It is more likely, he adds, that the Soviet will carry its propaganda to the agreed frontier, whence it will inevitably percolate to German areas.

The Soviet apparently anticipated that a buffer State would have a Fascist character, and refused to agree.

Another Moscow despatch says tens of thousands of Stalin’s “History of the Communist Party” are being distributed to peasants, workers and schoolchildren in Poland.