AMAZING PARADE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 November 1927, Page 5

AMAZING PARADE

RUSSIA’S MILITARY POWER

“ANSWER TO ENGLAND”

EFFIGIES OF CHAMBERLAIN

(By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian &. N.Z. Cable Association)

MOSCOW, 7th Nov

A climax to the ten days’ festivity in connection with the anniversary of the revolution was an amazing demonstration of military power, 25,000 picked troops commanded by War Minister Veroshilow, parading m the Red Square, movements being accompanied by the thunder of cannon and the blare of military music. The army was vastly different- from the mob of ragged,- hungry troops whom Lenin originally drafted into the Red army. As. division after division of welluniformed and perfectly equipped infantry, heavy artillery, and superbly horsed cavalry paraded with perfect discipline, the crowds in the grandstands commented rapturously: “This is our answer to- England.”

The army represented all sections of the 125 federated States.

There were terrific cheers as the Cossacks swung into view at the gallop, mounted on black horses, and with black coats and fur capes flying in the wind, their drawn swords flashing in the sun. The Cossacks' did not differ outwardly from the troops, who were the terror of peasants in Czarist days. The military parade was followed by reserves of the workers from Moscow's trades unions. Thousands of men and women were armed with rifles.

Then came the carnival procession, in which no fewer than 20 effigies of Sir Austen Chamberlain were carried. Sir Austen was also represented, with Mussolini, as a double-headed dragon. A British Communist, Gallagher, was the only foreigner chosen to address the Red army. In a voice which was broadcast by a loud speaker, he declared that the r 'British Cabinet of blackguards" was to fight a -workers' government. "But the British workers are with you. If the British Empire starts war against Russia, we promise to convert it into a civil war and overthrow the world of imperialism." Terrific cheers and the boom of cannon greeted these closing remarks. TROTSKY AND ZINOVIEFF :■.'• MAY'BE BANISHED (Published in "The Times.") LONDON, 7th Nov. ' "The Times". Riga correspondent says it is suggested that Trotsky and Zino-' vieff may not only be expelled from the party, but banished from Russia. The Communists decided to pacify the opposition extremists by relieving loyal peasants of taxes and simultaneously restricting landowners' privileges, depriving them of the right to vote and increasing their taxation intolerably. ft RIVALRUSSIANS WHITE AND RED CLASHES AT HARBIN ("Sua" Cable.) TOKIO, Bth Nov. Ten thousand white Russians at Harbin paraded, hooting the Soviet Consulate, tearing red flags, looting Soviet shops'anc' houses, trampling underfoot scattered handbills, and urging the Chinese authorities to expel the Jews as breeders of Lrouble. There were numerous White and Red clashes, with both at times coming into conflict with the police.