SPOILING FOR WAR.
INTENSIVE SCHEME IN RUSSIA. SCHOOL CHILDREN AND PEASANTS BEING IMBUED WITH MILITARISM. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Times Cable.) (Received This Day,, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 21. The Riga correspondent of the Times says that the Education Department at Moscow has planned a systematic military preparation of school-going youth, including in the curricula of middle schools and i universities the theoretical, and practical study of modem warfare; and is engaging officials of the Red Army for regular war work at the schools, eiach of which is organising a special military room and forming military groups of the most - apt pupils. The Soviet is maintaining military enthusiasm in the people, which was roused during the recent manoeuvres bjt special agitation. Waggons decorated with war pictures and watchwords are perambulating the districts,’ attracting people by bands, dances and film displays.- - - -
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1928, Page 5
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