FOOD SHORTAGE IN RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1928, Page 5

FOOD SHORTAGE IN RUSSIA

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RIGA, Nov. 18

“Swine queues awaiting slaughter,” is how Soviet newspapers allude to an extraordinary influx of live animals into tho cities. The authorities complain of the importation into Moscow, Leningrad, and the principal central towns of tenfold the normal quantities of live animals. The paper “Pravda” says that hundreds die daily because they are over-crowded in stalls adjacent to the slaughterhouses, which are working two shifts daily, hut the queues increase. Moscow normally kills a. thousand animals per day, hut the queue there now numbers fourteen thousand. The city of Leningrad kills five hundred, but there are eight thousand queued up there. The Soviet newspapers declare that a. disaster is certain, because the peasants in all tho dairy districts are selling their dairy cows and pedigree cattle for slaughter, owing to a scarcity of fodder. The population of Moscow and Leningrad are consuming double tho normal amount .of meat, owing to the scarcity of other foodstuffs. LONDON, Nor. 19.

The “Daily Mail” Riga correspondent states people with relatives in Russia are posting thousands of packets of flour, rice and lard, thither weekly, owing to the famine in Moscow and Leningrad. Unemployed are living almost exclusively on apples.