South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-31
TROTZKY'S ARMY
is BLUFF, YANKEE
EXPERTS BELIEVE
Troops Pose on Polish Border
As Diplomatic Trick. Is
Americans Claim.

WASHINGTON July 3o.-Trotz-
ky's red army Tie bugaboo of Eu-
ropean Statesmen. and one OF me
chief reasons advanced by France
for maintaining her huge military
establishment IS a colOSsa buff at
least so far as foreign conquest i
concerned according % American
military experts
Organized for the purpose OF
thru~rins communism down the
throa.s u tho bourgeois nations Of
the world the Soviet leg.onS az
cordinE 10 Amer can experts. haze
Iot even been able 90 preserve the
Old Russian Empire from partial
cisintegrauon and have been really
effe ctive only in the we,l-known role
81 aweing the Russian peasants
Soviet leaders have proved them
selves thoroughg adherents OF
the doctrine of fear ID IS pointed out
I'm advance Of every overture by
Moscow diplomats toward The so
called Capltalistic chancellorie- there
has been a warlike demonstration.
If not by the RED army itself. then
al least i'm he form Of "A spasm of
verbal phro,echn.ss by War Score
tary Trotzky
Nevertheless il remains fact
that only a small percentage of the
!eG army are actually communists.
official Information here indicates.
and the greater number OF those do
ing squads right" for War Lord
Trotzky are there merely because
better food is 10 be obtained IN the
army than elsewhere.
Used For Diplomacy.
The present steady concentration
of Soviet troops on the Polish and
Rumanian frontiers is regarded here
as another exempltication of the
tendency of Soviet diplomacy TO use
The red army as trump card when
ever diplomatic negotiations are in
progress.
The movement Of troops began
shortly before the Genoa Conference
convened and has continued through
out the negotiations at The Hague
with the result that no less than
$4,000 men are now concentrated
on those frontiers
or those nearly One-half are on
the Polish or so-caHed Western
front" while approximately $4,000
are on the Rumanian border. and
the remainder are concentrated in
the Kark0n area The entire
strength Of the red armies including
800 of the so-calIed Cheko. or
secret service troops is estimated al
1900. 900
The movement Of troops toward
the frontier has occasioned consid-
enable alarm both in Poland and
Rumania. but those here most COM
petent 10 speak say all information
indicates merely a gesture toward
Europe originally undertaken for
moral effect upon the Genoa con
ference and continued TO guarantee
Soviet Russia a move impressive role
~ The Hague delhi erations
Many Rifles Available
The total combatant strength OF
The Red Army is estimated as in
the neighborhood of $4,000 rifles,
of which approximately 10000 are
included in the forces Concen-
trated on the Polish and Rumanian
frontiers. I'm addition Trotzky has
no less than $50 pieces of artillery
with these forces.
The alarm naturally felt i'm Po-
land-which was manifested in eff
forts Of the Polish government 70
conclude "A military alliance with
Finland and other Baltic states
was increased by warlike prepare
tions on the part Of the Soviet war
office. These specific preparations
Included.
a. Comprehensive improve
meuts in railway facilities and
highways leading TO =, the Polish
border.
- Unusual activity in the de-
velopment of artillery not only or
7 the Polish frontier but In the Mos
cow area as well, including the or
ganization OF more than fifty bat