TEN-YEAR PLAN ADOPTED BY SOVIET.
"LATEST CHALLENGE TO CAPITALIST WORLD.'' {By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Friday, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, July 12. The Daily Telegraph's Moscow correspondent says the Soviet has adopted a ten-year plan for the reconstruction and enlargement of Moscow to twice its .present size. Dilapidated houses will be demolished and new structures erected, none of which must 'be less than six storeys high. AH streets will be widened and asphalted, and a great new Lenin's avenne will be cut through the centre of the city, whose' boundaries will be -extended by more than 70,000 acres. The famous Red Square will be .doubled in size, and 11 new river bridges will be built. The erection of 530 schools, 17 hospitals and 50 new cinemas is also included in the plan. • The Izvestia says: "The plan is Russia's latest challenge to the capitalist world, where such big-scale reconstruction is impossible. The recon- ' sfructed Moscow will - reflect; the splendour of Socialist
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1935, Page 5
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