RUSSIA'S RED ARMY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 2 (Supplement)

RUSSIA'S RED ARMY.

LENIN GRANTS OVER £2.000.000 FOR ITS ORGANISATION. A detref. assigning 20 000,000 doubles for the organisation of the Workmen's and I Peasants' Army, dated January 29, 1918 was as follows : — " In accordance with the decision of the I commission for the organisation of the I Workmen's and Peasants' Red Army, as j created by the soldiers' section of tho third All Russian Congress of the Peasants', Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies, the Council of the People's Commissaries have decided to place at the disposal of the All-Russian Collegium, created under the War Commissariat, and composed of two lepreaentatvcs of the general staff of the Red Army, a sum of twenty million roubles, iboiit £2,125.000, from the funds of the Treasury, as a first instalment, for the organisation of (he Workmen's and Peasants' Reel Army. " This sum must he subsequently returned to the Treasury from tin m'onevs assigned to the War Fund, and is to be employed for opening credits to the local, regional, and provincial councils to the committees of the army, and to the staffs of the Red Army, for the organisation of the Workmen's and Peasants' Red Army, for the furnishing of supplies to the soldiers of the army which is to be organised, and for the organisation of a central administration." The decree was signed by V. UlianoffLenin, President of tho Council of thai Peoplo'a Commissaries