RUSSIAN ARMY
increased personnel " BOTH BORDERS MENACED" MOSCOW, Jan. i 5 The Commissar of Finance, M Grinko, reports a Budget surplus of 700,000,000 roubles for 1935. He outlines increased expenditure for 1936, including social and cultural work, school buildings and public health. The military expenditure is expected to be almost double that of 1930 approximately 19 per cent of the Budget. M. Grinko points out that the money will not merely he used to increase the number of effectives, but will be devoted also to the modernisation of barracks and the improvement of technical equipment necessitated by the threat of German and. Japanese aggression. It is officially revealed that the Russian army now is 1,300,000 strong, compared with 940,000 last year. It is explained that the increase is due to menaces on the eastern and western borders. The Soviet Government would aim at strengthening and stabNising the rouble in 1936. The industrial plan provides for a 23 per cent increase in output with a 10 per cent increase in wages. Agriculture is promised 84,000 more tractors, and it is expected that productivity will bo increased 24 per cent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22319, 17 January 1936, Page 9
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