SOVIET RUSSIA
FOSTERING MILITARY SPIRIT
GIRLS BEING TRAINED
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LONDON, January 26. Mr W. Wei lock, Labor member of the Mouse of Commons for Stourbridge, who was recently in. Russia, makes a remarkable disclosure of the methods adopted to increase the military spirit. -He says that girls, as well as boys, are learning to handle rifles, girls’ corps being formed in trade union clubs for this purpose. Mr W-ellock saw 500,000 young people march into Red square in Moscow in connection with the International'Youth movement. No capitalist Government in the world could put .au array into the field with a modicum of the enthusiasm possessed by young Russia.
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Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 7
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110SOVIET RUSSIA Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 7
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