The Archive · 1936

Red Army Ready in Far East

Prepared for Any Threat from Other Power London, Aug. 11.

"The Red Army in the Far East and the Russian Padifte feet are now ready to give an enemy a knock from which, they will not Soon recover if they attack Russia's frontier," declared" M.—Krutof, President of the Soviet's Far East ern Territory, according to the moscow correspondent of the 'M, Keulof is reported to have added that Russia" was spending 3,000,000,000 roubles this year. on the Far East alone and that a double track along the Amur River' section the 'Trans-Siberian Rallwey was being' completed.

New railway ines and roads were also being constructed, he declared, while sea, river, motor fand air transport" facilities "were being rapidly devetoped—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account