"WAR READY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 273, 18 November 1930, Page 7

"WAR READY."

SOVIET ACTIVITIES.

Preparations to Meet "Capitalist

Enemy."

PEACE TALK AT GENEVA.

("Times" Cables.)

LONDON, November 17

The Riga correspondent of the "Times" says that while Litvinoff was discussing disarmament at Geneva the Soviet had begun a monster agitation which is to last 10 days, to make the masses "war ready." Especial attention, is being directed to the need for military and naval aviation and gas warfare "in view of the ever-growing danger of attack by the capitalist enemy."

Agitators are encouraging workers to contribute their overtime payments toward strengthening tho Red Army, especially by the building of aircraft.

All the newspapers have published an article by Maxim Gorky, written in the author's luxurious' villa at Capo di Sorrento, Italy, exhorting the workers to arm in order to enable the Soviet to deal a crushing blow to its enemies.

He declares: "The Soviet civil war has not ended. Engineers, specialists and professors are still active against the revolution."

This so-called plot and the alleged preparations by France and Britain for an invasion of Russia are being given great prominence in the newspapers, which are virtually singing: "We don't want to fight, but by jingo if wo do."

Wireless, war films, war plays and red-hot oratory are all being employed to support tile movement.