SOVIET ANNIVERSARY

Evening Star, Issue 19709, 9 November 1927, Page 5

SOVIET ANNIVERSARY

RED ARMY PARADE CLIMAX TO FESTIVITIES ADDRESS BY BRITISH COMMUNIST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, November 7. The climax to tea clays of festivity was an amazing demonstration of military power. Twenty-live thousand picked troops, commanded by tho War Minister, M. Vcroshilow, paraded in Red square, the movements being accompanied by the thunder of cannon and the blare of military music. The army was vastly different from the mob of ragged, hungry troops whom Lenin originally drafted into the Reel Army. As division after division of well-uniformed and perfectly equipped infantry and heavy artillery and superbly horsed cavalry paraded with perfect discipline, the crowds in the grandstands commented rapturously: “This is our answer to England.” The army represented all sections of the 125 Federated States.

There were terrific cheers as the Cossacks swung into view at a gallop, mounted on black horses and with black cents and fur capos dying in the wind, their drawn swords flashing in the sun. The Cossacks did not differ outwardly from the troops, who were the terror of the peasants in Tsarist days. The military parade was followed by tho reserves of workers from Moscow’s trade unions, thousands of men and women armed with rifles. Then came a carnival procession in which no fewer than 20 effigies of Sir A listen Chamberlain were earned. Sir Austen Chamberlain was also represented with Signor Mussolini as a double-headed dragon. Tho British Communist, Gallagher, was the only foreigner chosen to address tho Bed Army. In a. voice which was broadcast by loud speakers, he declared that the British Cabinet of blackguards was out to fight the Workers’ Government, “but the British workers arc with you. If the British Empire starts war against Russia wo promise to convert it into a civil Avar and overthrow the Avorld of Imperialism.”

Terrific cheers and a boom of cannon greeted these closing remarks.