"SOVIET STRIVING FOR NEEDED PEACE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 264, 8 November 1939, Page 7

"SOVIET STRIVING FOR NEEDED PEACE."

NO PART IN WAR.

Red Army Leader Accuses Allies As Aggressors.

CIVILIANS DEMONSTRATE

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(Received IT a.m.) MOSCOW, November 7. Admiral Ku/.netsofT announced that several new ships will be launched this year. The Soviet is successfully solving the task of the creation of a powerful Navy, he added. Marshal \ oroshiloff issued an order of the day accusing Britain and France of making an effort to fan and extend the war. He praised the enthusiasm and efficiency of the Red Army during the advance into Poland, adding that this liberation campaign would go down as one of the most remarkable pages in the history of the Russian people.

"No developments can catch us unawares. We know the difference between friends and foes," he said. "The European war, in which Britain and France are the instigators and zealous champions, has not yet developed into a conflagration, 'but the British and French aggressors are seeking to fan it. The Soviet is striving for the peace so much needed by ail countries."

Addressing the Red Army, Marshal oroshiloff said: "'We must l>e ready for war. though we shall not participate. Russia has no unemployment and 110 crisis. The war is due to the insoluble problems of capitalism.

"Our troops are garrisoned in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania to protect these States, not to interfere with their internal affairs."

The usual parade of the Red Army in celebration of the 22nd anniversary ol the Bolshevik revolution followed.

The Finnish delegates in Moscow were treated to an impressive parade of Soviet might during the march of the Red Army.

M. Litvinoff, former Foreign Minister, ap|>eared beside Stalin, Molotoff and other Soviet leaders.

One million civilians demonstrated in the Red Square s'houting anti-war slogans and parrying caricatures of the British and French "aggressors."