RED ARMY MANOEUVRES
Armed Men Drop in Parachutes
LONDON, Sept. 16
The “Daily Telegraph’s” Moscow correspondent says; — Over one thousand men participating in a mass parachute raid, descending on one aerodrome far beyond the enemy lines with portable machine-guns was the most striking event in the Red Army manoeuvres, which were held in the Ukraine.
The raiders, leaping from a fleet of four-engined bombers in daylight, were “destroyed” by motorised infantry, cavalry, tanks and armoured trains. The demonstration was clearly a “set piece”. In war the raiders would be exterminated by anti-aircraft batteries surrounding the aerodrome.
Nevertheless, the raid was interesting as it showed that specially trained troops can descend almost simultaneously upon a point of strategic importance in the enemy’s back areas.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 232, 17 September 1935, Page 9
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