RUSSIAN CRISIS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS

COMMISSIONS SEEK GRAIN

PUNITIVE MEASURES

LONDON, 17th. November. ■' The yield from grain levies in Russi* being less than a quarter of that prescribed, the' Communist Central Committee, according to rthe Riga correspondent of "The Times," has sent missions to the TJkraine and the district north of the Caucasus -with orders to bring the ringleaders in passive Tesistance on the farms before tribunals for exemplary punishment.

The Commissar for Supplies, M. Mikoyan, lias already reported that the tribunals are faced, with' a gigantic task, as they -will be compelled to "purge" also local Government Communist officials an 4 slack judges who have been, "polluted, by the Kulak mentality." The Government has decided to prosecute resisters as counter-revolution-aries.

i The peasants declare that they hava [not the grain, but spies are betraying secret hoards, which have been, confiscated, and many peasants have already been tried and sentenced to at least ton years' forced labour. .Others have been, expelled from their farms and are faced with starvation.

The performance should on no account be missed by those who like to. se« a good play well produced and competently acted. Mr. -William Page, president of the society, suitably acknowledged tl» great assistance given to the society by Messrs. J. C. Williamson, Ltd., and manj; other contributors to its success.