RUSSIAN MILITANCY.
ALLEGED BOLSHEVIK BLUFF. ARMY ON PEACE FOOTING. A. and N.Z. LONDON, March 5. The Petrograd correspondent of the ■ Daily Mail says there have been many! rumours of impending Russian offensives", which are mainly Bolshevik propaganda. The truth is that the Soviet Army is entirely on a peace footing, the only infantry class under arms being the' 1901! class, though the 1902 class will be shortly called up. Each division has two establishments, on the frontier and in the interior, and their respective ration strengths are 8700 and 6721. There- are 39 such divisions, of which three or four are in Turkestan, one in Georgia, one in Azerbaijan, one in Armenia, two in the Far East. Between 40 and 50 batteries j of heavy artillery are scattered about. j The Bolsheviks have greatly progressed j in aviation, and are in possession oi many j modern British and Italian machines of high standard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18342, 7 March 1923, Page 9
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