RUSSIA TO ORGANISE.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17015, 31 January 1927, Page 8

RUSSIA TO ORGANISE.

APPEAL FOR ENROLMENT. WHOLE TO BE MILITARISED. AN INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn ) (Received anuarv 31, .2.45 p.m.) T liiGA, anuary 30. The Times correspondent telegraphs: ‘.‘The whole of Russia must be -militarised,” said M. Vorosbiloff, the War Commissar, addressing the panSoviet 'military organisations. ' ‘‘Foreign PoAvers arc preparing to attack the Bolshevists, and we will be fools if we do, not take precautions.” He ’hoped to sec an army membership ,Qf .20,000,000, and leading Bolshevists mre touring Russia urging an enrolment campaign, which although it -has always been active, was never more, intensive. . . ■Simultaneously, the so-called international organisations, which are really .Soviet Communists with a few foreign hangers-on, have started a stream of-appeals to world workers, describing the' British Government as principal of international cut-throats, and urging workers not to handle munitions'; The United States arc designated as pirates, who .arc trying to strangle Nicaragua and conquer McxiccL Anglo-American activities are mbrel.y a prelude to an attack on Russia. , , .