RUSSIAN MILITARISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19550, 1 February 1927, Page 11

RUSSIAN MILITARISM.

ENLARGEMENT OF ARMY. HUGE INTENSIVE. CAMPAIGN. BRITAIN OPENLY SLANDERED. AMERICA ALSO ATTACKED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received Jan. 31, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Timca. LONDON, Jan. so. A despatch from Moscow says a semiofficial news agency denies the reported concentration of' Russian troops on the western and eastern frontiers. The Riga correspondent of the Times telegraphs: "The whole of Russia must be militarised," said Voroshiloff, Commissar of War, in the course of an address to the pan-Soviet military organisations. " Foreign Powers are preparing to attack the Bolsheviks. We would be fools if we did not take precautions. I hope to see an army membership of 20,000,000 and leading Bolsheviks touring Russia urging enrolment. The correspondent says this campaign, which has always been active, was never more intensive than it is now. In conjunction with it so-called international organisations, which are really comprised of Soviet Communists with a few foreign hangers-oil, have started to issue a stream of appeals to the workers of the world. These appeals describe the British Government as "the chief of the international cut-throats." They urge workers not to handle munitions. The people of the United States are designated as " pirates who nre trying to strangle Nicaragua and conquer Mexicoi" The workers are also being, told that the activities of Britain and America are merely a preludo to an attack upon Russia.