Moscow, Feb, 4.
The newspapers published the a dress delivered by the People's Cor missar of War and Navy, Voroshilov at the seventeenth congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in the course of the debates on Stalin's:
On the question of military de-standard of the armed forces of the fence, M- Voroshley sted that the evel of development of the country. U.SS.R. fully corresponds to the He said in part:
"We have now sufficient number of modern tanks, we have decent artillery, both with regard to its entity' and " quality,—entirel satisfactory number of good mi chine-guns (light, heavy, tank, guns) of our own makes. We now have a powerful chemical industry, and means of communica tion that rare not bed, In 1090 the U. aviation force was insufficient, "During the past three and a half years we created, powerful, heavy bombing force and achieved improvement in all other types of aircraft."
Far Eastern Defence Far East, "TD must say that we cannot at present boast of the of these young fects in the north jut Far East, We have there 20 first line ships, or aireraft-car-views, and similar means of naval attack, but, as it is known, we do not intend to attack anybody, either on sea, or on land. We only want to defend our coasts and frontiers, and we "feel - cone vineed' that the light naval forces of coast defence that. we have there, and mainly our naval avia~ will ition, nes, will soundly mutilate the attacking enemy,'
"However, we do. not consider un achievements 100 per cent, complete. There sil) remains: Thing Ie thatthe army We payeho: logically bound to the new techni-army is: psycho came and has subjected this techni que to its will", "The measures of defence of our frontier towns "area regular eyesore for "the Japanese, would naturally be more agree lo to our neighbour, if our from ers with Manchoukuo were defenceless, as the Chinese fron tiers were badly sheltered in 1981, Rut our amiability does not. go fas far, as to give anybody" hia Pleasure'
The Far East is covered with clouds out of which the war storm Moy break out, Regardless. of the efforts of our diplomats," we far have not succeeded in, impreseing upon the ruling circles in Japan that peace is better than war, that war against us will not he easy, simple, small war for he Japanese imperialists. "The war, we are forced into it, will und serious war. It will war against Bolsheviks, and wuder "moder conditions, That war will cost_much to ite ini tors. "Our far" away" neighbours Who hope so easily to' profit. at Ue' expense of others, must bear this "T know that we all, as one man, are convinced thet not. only we shall defend our Far Enst, but shall also emerge victorious from any war, if we are forced into it—Tass,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.