Maneuvers

Russian boys of 18, 19 and 20 were called up for conscript service in the Red Army last week. Reason: "the threat of capitalist encirclement." Troops of the Western Military District opened their regular fall maneuvers near the frontiers of German Poland and Rumania. In the rich Ukraine the city of Kiev was peppered with mock bombs. The Red Navy completed summer maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny and Sheposhnikov. Large Russian forces massed quietly along the frontier of Finland, whose well-loved old peasant President Kyoesti Kallio lay dying.

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