1939-08-31 — Page 37

· THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939.

SOVIET UNION NOT TO BE TAKEN BY SURPRISE: NEW CONSCRIPTION BILL

Moscow, To-day.

THE WAR COMMISSAR, Marshal Voroshilov, justi-

SHOCKING fied the new conscription bill in a one-hour ATTACK speech at the Supreme Soviet Council by the ne- cessity of proposing "just at the present moment ALLEGED

of tension in the international situation, new measures for strengthening the Soviet Russian Sui, was remanded forces."