ALWAYS READY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1940, Page 7

ALWAYS READY

RUSSIAN POLO

GUARDING AGAIIisT SURPRISE

PEACEFUL "EXPAN&KM

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Cop^lght. > i (Received November 8, nooifc,). MOSCOW, November f!i The Commissar of Defence, Marshal Timoshenko. in a speech from Lenin's tomb, in the presence of Stalin and Molotov, said that She* frontiers of Soviet Russia had been expanded ,by peaceful solution .of external problems—the return jof Bessarabia and Bukovina and the/itrrcorporation of Latvia, Estonia, aiod Lithuania. The world would have to acquiesce in that expansion. The people of Russia must remember Stalin's orders to be constantly in s^ state of mobilisation. They must see that they.are not taken unawares. "Such an army could smash any enemy," said the radio announcer when units of the Red army marched* past Lenin's tomb for 80 minutes. LONDON, November 7. In Moscow today units of *the Red army marched past Lenin's tomb in the Red Square in celebration of the twenty-third anniversary of Soviet Russia. M. Stalin took the salute as tanks, anti-aircraft, and motorised divisions rolled across the square for an an hour and twenty minutes. After the military parade 200,000 workers marched across the square and nights of bombers and fighter planes flew past.