DRASTIC CUTS
IN SOVIET FOOD RATIONS.
TERRIBLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON, September 5. The “Daily Express’ ” correspondent at Moscow says: “The approach of the worst winter since the famine of the year 1922 is heralded by drastic Soviet decrees, orderihg a fifty per cent, reduction in the present food rations and commanding the factories,, the trusts, and other Government organisations within the city district* to grow their own vegetables.
“Only the foreign diplomatic staffs are exempted from the rationing decree. “The prices of commodities in the open markets are fantastic, 1 Butter is 60 shillings per pound, and meat is 20 shillings per pound. *
“There .are constant desertions from mines, which also threaten a coal shortage. ”
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 5
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