RUSSIA’S RED NAVY.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16816, 7 June 1926, Page 5

RUSSIA’S RED NAVY.

PROJECTED WORLD TOUR TESTING LENINGRAD’S DEFENCES SUSPICIONS OF BRITAIN. (Times.) (Received June 7, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 0. The Times’ Riga correspondent reports that Moscow announces that a Red squadron, consisting of a battleship, two cruisers, and some destroyers, will make a voyage round the world Hi is summer, visiting Stettin, Portsmouth, 'Toulon, Genoa, Alexandria, Calcutta, Nagasaki, San Francisco and Panama. The licet lias begun exercises in the Baltic. A special order emphasises that the chief object of the manoeuvres consists of testing the defences of Leningrad approaches, and calls special attention to the co-ordination of fleet, air and coast defence. The commander-in-chief, Zeoff, in urging the reinforcement of the Red Navy, stresses the fact, that Britain is able to penetrate the Baltic Sea and creep up to Kronstadt, lie recalls the action of the Great Powers in 1923 when they refused to consent to the bottling up of the Baltic for Baltic Powers, and adds: “The British naval visits to the Baltic are certainly aggressive. She is trying to utilise the Baltic States in order to strengthen her influence against Russia.”