DEADLY GAS
TO AID RUSSIA’S FIGHTING HORDES.
RECORD PREPARATIONS
SOVIET NOT PARTY TO CIVILISED CONVENTIONS. (United Press Assn. —Copvright.) LONDON, March 16. The Secretary of State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day, said that the latest information available showed that the Russian standing army numbered 650 000. Including territorials and militia, the total was 1,000,000, while the reserves numbered an additional 8,000,000. The study of gas warfare is being actively pursued in Soviet Russia. Numerous factories had been built, or were building, capable of gas production on a, large scale. Major-General Sir Alfred Knox (Con., Wycombe): Are the Russian preparations for this kind of warfare greater than those of other' countries ? Sir Laming Worthington-Evans: There is not the slightest do'ubt that much greater gas preparations are being made in Russia than anywhere else in the world. Mr. J. Beckett ('Lab., Gateshead): In view, of the unnatural effects of tliis warfare, could not an offer be made to Russia and other countries offering to abandon the gas weapon if they did likewise? Sir Laming Worthington-Evans: I would refer you to the Washington Convention and the proposal at present before the League of Nations. Unfortunately, Russia is not a party to either.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10375, 5 April 1927, Page 5
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208DEADLY GAS Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10375, 5 April 1927, Page 5
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