A RUSSIAN THREAT
TO NEAP EAST AND INDIA 800,000 TROOPS MASSED " ' ON AFGHAN BOLDED The Pome Press declares that Russia has massed 800,000 men on the Afghan frontier. ; Britain and Fiance are organising an expeditionary' force of 300,000 men under General Weygand, as a precautionary measure. •. The Cairo correspondent of "II Mes- ; sagoro" says that the Russians arc also concentrating in the Caucasus,’ and because of this Britain, France and Turkey are discussing tlie immediate formation of an advance force in this 1 region. , , ■ ' , Iran has 50,000 men under arms and is hastening fortifications. : The Foreign Ministers of Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan have decided cn . joint- dereasive preparations, and Iraq continues to fortify the Eussian-Iraq frontier.
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Patea Mail, 3 January 1940, Page 2
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116A RUSSIAN THREAT Patea Mail, 3 January 1940, Page 2
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