"Soviet Navy Ready To Repel Any Attack"
Moscow, Feb. 1.
Details on the growth of the Soviel Navy and coastal defences in recent years were given by M. Smirnov, the newly-appointed Commissar of the Navy, in an article in "Pravda" to-day.
M. Smirnov stated that the Navy had grown immensely in quality and especially. the submarine and that the battleships hed been fully modernized, Fortified coastal areas, the Commissar said, were three-fold greater than five years ago, and the artillery and armament of the coastal defences were one and a half times greater.
M. Smirnov claimed that the Soviet Navy was "ready to repel any
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