“OF WARS TO COME.”
M. TROTSKY’S VISION. STIRRING UP THE ARMY. By Telegraph—Prees Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received Mav 17, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 16 The Riga correspondent of “ The Times” states that the Soviet leaders, who assure foreign pressmen of their peaceful motives and explain that the Soviet's military preparations are solely of a defensive nature, adopt an entirely different tone when addressing select gatherings of .their own followers. M. Trotsky at present is trying his hardest to instil a martial spirit into the Red Army by almost- daily speeches in which he unfolds vistas of great and glorious revolutionary wars, particularly in the East. One of the most striking of his recent speeches was delivered at the Moscow Military Academy, in which he unfolded a plan for organising all Russia's peace time industries on a war footing. He said We must regard the whole of our economic life from a military standpoint. This applies particularly to the chemical industry, which we must systernatcially organise for chemical warfare.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17352, 17 May 1924, Page 1
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