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of the trade agreement would, as
Chicherin claims, set England upon
the road to war which would involve
the whole world.
Soviet Union Seeks Peace.
That Soviet Russia is seeking peace,
and not war, is pointed out from the
report of M. w. Frunze, War Com
missar at the third congress of the
Soviet Union. Frunze pointed out that
in four years the Red Army has been
reduced from 100000 to $4,000.
The ring of imperialist nations and
their puppet governments have, Frunze
reported, been doing the exact oppo-
site. They have been preparing for
war-and openly-with Soviet Rus
STA. Frunze said: "The Helsingfors
Conference of the Baltic governments,
the General STAFF Conference at Riga,
the Bucharest Conference Of the Lit
tie Entente and the fierce agitation
which is being carried on in the bour-
geois press of the world against the
Soviet Union, compels us to most Sc
riously concern ourselves"
Roumania Increases Army.
Roumania has recently increased
her army by 25 per cent and bought
10000 rifles and 100000 rounds of
ammunition for them. Poland has or
dered three torpedo boats and six
submarines from France. Great Britain
has just loaned White guard Esthonia
s5.000,000 to arm her troops and pro-
vide for increased forces. Frunze, in
referring to these developments added;
You will have read that the Els
thOnian government is ceding the
islands of Oesel and Dagoe to Great
Britain. If this report be confirmed
if the English flag is indeed to fly over
the Islands of Oesel and Dagoe, it
would mean that the English dread
noughts could appear before the walls
Of Kronstadt and Leningrad within "a
hours and that the English air-fleet
could cruise over the factories of
Leningrad within an hour and half.
You will understand that this is by no
means a matter of indifference to us.
We must regard such a transaction as
a direct challenge to our worker and
peasant state.
Good Precedent for Sympathy.
you know that the ex-Prime Min
lister Lloyd George and the present
French Prime Minister Painleve, as
sured the Ukrainian deputy Wassint-
schuk, who had been sentenced to
penal servitude by a Polish court, of
their sympathy. Now if Painleve and
Lloyd George consider it possible to
do this, who can forbid the workers
and peasants of our Union to call to
our oppressed brothers: We know
your griefs, your sufferings, we are
with you, heart and soul, we send you
our warmest fraternal greetings
'Tn spite of all this, declare most
emphatically that we have no desire
for war and that, in spite of the as
sertions of the foreign courageous
press, we are not preparing for an
attack against either Poland or Rou-
mania.
Numerical Strength.
ct will pass over the numerical
strength of our Red air fleet. will
only say that it is unfortunately not
much stronger than our nearest west
ern neighboring countries together,
Poland, Roumania and the Battles.
1.-THE strength of the Red Army
without the navy amounts to only
$4,000 men. That is $4,000 less
than in France and 1900 less than
our nearest western neighboring coun-
tries together, Poland, Roumania and
the battles.
These figures show with convinc-
ing force that it is nonsense to speak
of Red Imperialism. Absolutely as
well as relatively, we spend much
less on ornaments than all other, the
largest bourgeois states, and relative
ly even much less than the smallest
bourgeois states. At the disarmar
ment conference at Moscow, it was
precisely Poland which frustrated our
proposals for giving up the argument
Of arms"
British There With Cold Water
LONDON, July Great Britain to-
day threw cold water on Secretary of
State Kellogg's proposal for new
conference of the powers to iron out
Chinese troubles that have resulted in
the present widespread disorders in
that country.
China must put her house in order
before there can be any conference to
discuss matters of extra-territoriality,
said the usual hypocritical statement
from the foreign office.
officials Show Surprise
British officials were manifestly sur
prised at Kellogg's move, for no COM
munication had been received from
Washington, they asserted. In the
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