DEFENCE-MINDED
THE YOUTH OF RUSSIA. MOSCOW DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, Sept. 2. > The Guardian’s Moscow correapond- ■ ent says that Soviet youth showed that they are defence-minded when 500,000 • of both sexes demonstrated in Red Square on the observance of the 20th ! International Youth Day, after . speeches exhorting youth to do their utmost for the defence of their Fatherland. One contingent, compo-scd of boys aged from eight to ten years, was currying wooden rifles. It was noteworthy that groups of sharpshooters comprised nearly half girls. The demonstrators also manoeuvred models of battleships and miniature tanks across the square.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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