SOVIET ARMY
STRONGEST IN EUROPE
AEROPLANES FOR POISON GAS
(Unjted Press Association.—Copyright ) -(Sydney Sun Cable.)
™ ««™.-' LONDON, 19th Jan. The "Chicago Tribune's" Berlin edition reports that secret services reveal that the Soviet army is the strongest in Europe. The personnel consists of 1,270,000 permanent infantry, 370,000 'trained reservists, 560,000 cavalry, 80 - 000 air force, with 2000 aeroplanes, 860 of which are obsolete, but are being rebuilt and fitted with apparatus for spraying deadly poison gas, ostensibly to protect the Russian forests from parasites.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 9
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82SOVIET ARMY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 9
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