YOUNG RUSSIA
MILITARY SPIRIT FOSTERED. FORMATION OF GIRLS’ CORPS, (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 26, at 9 p.m.) Mr W. Wellock, Labour member of the House of Commons for Stourbridge, who was recently in Russia, makes a remarkable disclosure of the methods adopted to increase the military spirit. He says that girls, as well as boys, are learning to handle rifles, girls’ corps being formed in trade union clubs for this purpose. Mr Wellock saw 500,000 young people march into Red square in Moscow in connection with the International Youth movement. No capitalist government in the world could put an army into the field with a modicum of the enthusiasm possessed by young Russia.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 9
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