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ACHING FOR WAR. TROTSKY'S TRtrCTJEENCE. INCITING TO FIGHT. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) i (Received - p.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Riga correspondent of the "Times" states that the Soviet leaders who assure foreign pressmen of their peaceful motives, and explain that Soviet military preparations arc solely of a defensive nature, adopt an entirely different tone when addressing select gatherings of their own followers. Trotsky at present is trying his hardest to instil a martial spirit into the Red Army by almost daily speeches, in which he unfolds vistas of great and glorious revolutionary wars, particularly in the East. One of the most striking of his recent speeches was delivered at Moscow Military Academy, in which he unfolded a plan for organising all Russia's peacetime industries on a war footing. He sai: "We must regard the whole of our economic life from a military standpoint. This applies particularly to thr cbemical industry, which we must systematically organise for chemical warfare."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 5
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