The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-02

iIOtfhy nSu HIIny' lIi5 DuSd-DoO NL of European statesmen, and one of the chief reasons advanced by France for maintaining her huge mil itary establishment, is a colossal bluff, at least so far as foreign con- quest is concerned according to American military experts.
 Organized for the purpose of thrusting communism down the throats of the bourgeois nations of the world the Soviet legions, ac- cording to American experts, have not even been able to preserve the old Russian Empire from partial disintegration and have been really effective only in the well-known role of aweing the Russian peasant.
 Soviet leaders have proved them selves thoroughgoing adherents of the doctorine of fear, it is pointed out. Tn advance of every overture by Moscow diplomats toward the so-called capitalistic chancellories, there has been a warlike demonstra- tion, if not by the Red Army itself, then at least in the form of spasm of verbal pyrotechnics by War Secretary Trotzky.
 Nevertheless, it remains fact that only small precentage of the Red Army are actually communists, official information here indicates, and the greater number of those doing squads right for War because better food is to be ob- tained in the army than elsewhere.
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 The present steady concentration of Soviet troops on the Polish and Rumanian frontiers is regarded here 1s another eXemplification of the tendency of Soviet diplomacy to use the Red Army as a 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 35 900 men are now concentrated on | those frontiers.
 Of these nearly one-half ere on the Polish or so-called "Western front" while approximately .125,00O are on the Rumanian border, and ] the remainder are concentrated in the Karkoff area. The entire strength of the Red Armies including A25,000 of the so-called Cheka, or secret serv- ice troops is estimated at approxi- mately 1,5O0,0OO.
 This movement of troops toward the frontier has occasioned consider able alarm both in Poland and Ru- mania but those here most compe- tent to speak say all information indicates merely a gesture toward Europe. originally undertaken for moral effect upon the Genoa Confer ence and continued to guarantee Sov- jet Russia a more impressive role in The Hague deliberations.
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 The total coE.batant strength of tho Red Army is estimated aa ill the neighborhood of 650,O00 rifles, of which approximately 210,00O are in cluded in the forces concentrated on the Polish and Rumanian frontiers. In addition Trotzky has no less than $50 pieces of artillery with these forces. The alarm naturally left in Poland which was manifested in efforts of the Polish Government to conclude military alliance with Finland and other Baltic States-was in creased by warlike preparations on the part of the Soviet War Office. These specific preparations included:
 "1. Comprehensive improvements in railway facilities and highways leading to the Polish border.
 "2 Unusual activity in the devel- opment of artillery not only on the Polish frontier, but in the Moscow area as we'll, including the organi- zation of more than fifty battalions of artillery of various types and cal ibres.
 "3 The establishment of approx imately 300 new field hospitals.
 "A Mobilization of many officers and surgeons who previously had been discharged from the army as well as an organized and systematic