BELLICOSE BOLSHEVIKS

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 5

BELLICOSE BOLSHEVIKS

—-P— _ " — ACHING FOR WAR. TROTSKY'S TRT.CUI__NC_. -NCITING TO FIGHT. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) Z (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Riga correspondent of the "Times" | states that the Soviet leaders who assure j foreign pressmen of their peaceful i motives, and explain that Soviet military j preparations are solely of a defensive : nature, adopt an entirely different tone , when addressing select gatherings of i their own followers. j 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 j in the East. One of the most striking of his recent speeches was delivered at Moscow Mili- j tary Academy, in which he unfolded a | plan for organising all Russia's peace- j time industries on a war footing. He j sai: "We must regard the whole of our economic life from a military stand- I point. This applies particularly to the j chemical industry, which we must systematically organise for chemical warfare."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) | ___=_______ I