CELEBRATIONS IN RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 11

CELEBRATIONS IN RUSSIA.

BIG MILITARY DISPLAY. ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLT. (R CllU-raiag ABSOCIATIOH COPTBIGHT.) V.Z. AXD SUN CABLE.) ftwetrtd November Bth, 9.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, November 7. flu climax of ten days of festivity v u amazing demonstration of milirj power. Twenty-five thousand nW troops, commanded by the War iaiittt, M. Veroshilow. paraded in Etd Square, their movements being Mosmaied by the thunder of cannon tit \iiare of military music. Tbeiraj- is vastly different from the of rigged, hungry troops whom kw originally drafted into the R-ed Atty. it division after division of «Ikaiformed, perfectly equipped intot 17, heavy artillery, and superbly'|*!«l avalry paraded with perfect f jß#e, the crowds in the grandluo commented rapturously: "'This 1 answer to England.'' Im irmy represented all sections of Js 125 federated States. There were '•rife cheers as the Cossacks swung new at the gallop, mounted on horses and with black coats, '*? fur capes flying in the wind and drawn swords flashing in the sun. t» Cotsacks did not differ outwardly the troops who were the terror e »e peasants in the Tsarist days, ttt military parade was followed by of reserves, comprising from Moscov» r s trade unions, of thousands of men and »rmed with rifles. Then came ® cirmral procession, in which no than 20 effigies of Sir Austen r, u , were o arried. Sir Austen w . as . a ' so represented with °'' n ' as a double-headed-

® r itish Communist. Mr Galthe only foreigner chosen J'f® re6s the Red Army. In a voice if? broadcast by loud speakers, i ml the British Cabinet W~rF lar^s was fighting the ISI* " oTer ™ent, "but the British &re with you. If the British w® 6 , ar t ,s w ar against Russia we Lj * ™ convert it into civil war jjv ttthrov the world of imperialcheers and the boom of these closing remarks.