RUSSIA’S AIR POWER
TRAINED PILOTS 5,000,000 ;AFS.M V VOLUNTEERS MOSCOW, April 15. Russia ’s.' readiness to meet attack was emphasised at the Congress ot the Young Communist League, in the C.rniid Iktlaee of the Kremlin to-day.
M. Kcemrieff, the General Secretary, deelaredt that: Last vear ft SOI l air lorce pilots had been t rained, and ;>2/lbb men had learned.; to glide; This year a further soon pilots would Tip* trained;
ii/M *1,0(40 young men. and women iiKon’/iers .of the Communist League wenj ready to join the Red Army at a aiotice. With kite aid of the “League for Aviation dud Chemical Warfare,” lie lidded, :>s,fi'Ol) “chemical instructors” had berin (trained. He acld'?id that, if the Soviet Union was at trie Ided the proletariat in Japan, Germany stud Poland would come to ;is aid.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 2
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