SOVIET ON ALERT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 263, 4 October 1940, Page 7

SOVIET ON ALERT.

BIG TROOP CONCENTRATIONS.

POLISH AND BALKAN FRONTS

LONDON, Oct. 2.

The Polish Telegraphic Agency reports that refugees arriving m Bucharest confirm that a mass concentration of Russian troops is being made along the Rivers Bug and San, which form the frontier between German and Russian Poland. A similar concentration has begun on the frontier of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia, where strong Russian mechanised units lie camouflaged among the forests. Worochta, the famous Polish spa in the Carpathian mountains, is packed with tanks and .motorised units. Moreover, numerous transports of motorised units are going to Rowne (or Rovno, South-Eastern Poland), from where they are concentrating on the German-Russian frontier in that area. Neutrals, arriving in Bucharest from Moscow, .confirm that Russian propaganda against a German threat is being intensified. The Russian deliveries to Germany, they state, have diminished and the trade treaty is not being carried out fully. A Moscow decree calls up youths throughout Russia aged 14' to 17 to serve "in the State Labour Reserve. They will he mobilised for four years’ work in mines and factories. Their military service will he suspended during industrial conscription. The decree points out that the measure is necessary to increase Russia’s productive capacity.