Moscow:
Klementi Voroshilov, Commissar of War, gives a bellicose speech before a regional trade union conference, in which he predicts that a massive war is coming between the “capitalistic” powers and the Soviet Union. But he appears to welcome it, saying it will be the only way for the Soviet Union to deal with its enemies. “In a future war, our air force working in collaboration with an immensely powerful artillery and utilizing chemical means of destroying life will play a decisive role. The Red Army is already strong enough in all these branches to beat all its probable enemies, but considering that the enemy powers will be stronger industrially, we cannot rest content with the present munition supply either in respect to quantity or quality. The foundation of the munition supply and technical power lies in the trade union movement. The next war will be decided by workers in the factories, professors in the laboratories and students in the higher technical schools.”
Nowa Slupia, Poland:
A large but incidental fire destroys 70 houses and two synagogues . . . and reaches stores of explosives hidden in the basement of a building used for communist meetings, rocking the town with huge explosions. Communists then cut the water mains to hamper fire control efforts, and attack firefighters and police with knives. It takes 24 hours and the arrest of 11 communists to get the situation under control. Five are killed and 100 more severely burned. Police say the basement was being used as a supply center for communist militants in southern Poland.
Lima:
Meanwhile, allegations of communist agitation in Peru. The newspaper La Prensa prints an article which says a
communist plot against the government has been discovered in the army, and
several officers are due to be court martialed as a result. “A few subaltern officers as well as a
comparatively considerable number of sergeants and corporals were arrested,”
the article says.
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