The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-10


 one of his great cares. He has the title of Flagman of the First Rank, equivalent to that of an admiral.
 Il Komandarm Alksnls is the "he- man" of aviation in the Red army. A large, powerful robust type, he has a straightforward manner which has won the devotion of his subordinates. Now a little past 50, he has developed the trait of leadership indispensable to higher command in any army.
 Like Flagman Orlox, Roman darm Alksnis is great student of technique and gives particular attention to the Djukovski air aca- denny, the higher training school of the air force. Practically and theoretically he is well fitted for his position. Alksnis began flying in the early 1920's and has been flying ever since.
 He leads the big Soviet air re- views in person on May 1 and Nov. 2, usually flyin in light, fast bomb CT. Alksnis is familiar with ad- vanced technique in Europe through personal visits but has never been to the United States. When the Moscow-Prague airline was estab- lished he himself flew one of the first planes.
 Bluecher Guards Far East
 Komandarm Alksnis and Flagman Orlov, however, would be only two of the important men under Voro- shilov in event of war. The vital Far Eastern sector, which bulks | large in any war in which the Soviet Union might be engaged because of the fear of Japanese aggression even though Japan might not be involved at first, would call into play the skill of Marshal Vastly Bleucher, a soldier of romantic career who has built what is said to be an im- pregnable line of defense in will derness.
 Marshal Bleucher is also for mer Czarist officer who swung early to the Bolsheviks and in a notable career did much to estab- fish Soviet rule in the southern and Asiatic areas.
 Under Bleucher the Red Guard defeated Kolchak units on the southern and Asiatic fronts, and after his victory Bluecher was selected as minister of war in the Far Eastern Republic in 1920. AS such he built up the scattered, dis organized groups of Red partisans into a fighting force which cleared out Japanese units still occupying , part of the infant, pseudo-inde- pendent republic.
 Occupied Eastern Gateway When the Japanese and the White Guard elements accepting orders from the Merkulov gov ernment in Vladivostok were de- feated, eliminating in the taking of Volchiakva in January, 1922, the gateway to Kharborovsk was left open. Kharborovsk promptly was occupied by the Peoples Revolutionary Army"
 Bleucher directed the further advance of this army south toward Vladivostok and the Whites were driven toward the Japanese lines encircling Vladivostok.
 When the national assembly of the Far Eastern Republic peti- tioned for admission to the Soviet Union, which was accepted, Bleuch- CT returned to Moscow in Novem- Der, 1922, leaving the further elim- ination of the Japanese and White guardists to be accomplished by Morevich, present komandarm of the White Russian military district. Bleucher, after joining Frunze and Voroshilov in reconStructlng the Red army, returned to the Far East when the Chinese inter- nal situation grew acute. As Gen eral Galens" he headed the internal agency or center during the nortln- ward trek of Chiang Kaishek. When Chiang Kai-shek, after brief fir tation with the Soviet Union, decid- ed to break with the communists, Bleucher returned to Moscow. Created Marshal in 1885
 His stay was short, however. After the Japanese attack on Manchuria and the rising of an emergency threatening the integ- rity of the Soviet borders, Bieucher was the obvious choice as leader of defense forces in the Far East. He wa smade marshal in 1885 with the original nominees for the newly created grade.
 Marshal Bleucher is in his early sos, pleasant, decisive, efficient and affable in conversation. Voroshilov, unlike the men who would be close to him in command 1 of the Far East, the Red Fleet and the air force in event of war, was revolutionary from his early youth. Born in 1881, he became a worker at the age of '. and at 1 18 struck his first blow att he rul- ing classes by leading strike in an iron factory.
 Following years of revolutionary activity, frequently arrested and exiled, Voroshilov met Lenin when sent as a delegate to the Stock holm Congress of World Revolu- tionaries. Lenin immediately took a liking to him and ordered that he be assigned important party work.
 Known as Tactician He rose to military fame and became close friend of Stain during the Civil War which fol- lowed the October revolution of 1917. He made brilliant record as a military tactician as com | mancIer in succession of the Fifth Ukrainian, the Tenth and finally the Fourteenth Bolshevik armies.
 When Michael Frunze died, in 1925, Voroshilov was made com missar for defense and naval affairs as well as president of the Revolutionary Council, and was made member of the Political Bureau the following year. I Voroshilov likes to ride and e1.Ank ,1oe av1 offro atiUa tNArcoY1.