WARNING TO ENEMIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22971, 24 February 1938, Page 13

WARNING TO ENEMIES

SOVIET WAR MINISTER POISON GAS RETALIATION ADMIRAL'S DISAPPEARANCE (Received February 23, 5.5 p.m.) MOSCOW, Feb. 32fj The Commissar of War, M. Voro- j shiloff, in an address to the Red Army said: "If any enemies dare to attack us and succeed in sending poison gas across our frontier, we will pour poison gas on their heads by the pail full."

M. Voroshiloff cleared up the mystery of. the disappearance in October of Admiral Orloff, formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, who was Russia's chief delegate to the Coronation. Describing Orloff as a traitor, M. Voroshiloff said he had been destroyed, presumably meaning that he had been shot. CALL TO WORKERS STALIN'S MANIFESTO WORLD REVOLUTION POLICY MOSCOW, Feb. 17 A statement by M. Stalin, interpreted as a reaffirmation of the old Communist doctrine of a world revolution, is published in the Soviet official newspaper Pravda. "The entire Soviet population must maintain its mobilisation so that the wiles of our external enemies may never catch us off guard," the statement says. If we are attacked, the political assistance of the working classes of bourgeois countries must be organised. In return, Soviet workers must give every assistance in their power. "The Red Army, Navy and Air Force must be strengthened by every possible means. "Unaided, the Soviet Union has solved the problem of its internal enemies, but it cannot, merely by its own efforts, solve this second problem —the menace of intervention and the restoration of capitalism created by the existence of so many hostile States. "This problem requires the combined and determined efforts of the world proletariat, and even stronger action by the Russian people themselves. A final victory for Socialism in the sense of ft complete guarantee against the restoration of the bourgeois regime will be possible only on an international scale. "This means the serious help of the international proletariat. Without it the problem of final victory for Socialism in any one country cannot be solved."