FOOD SHORTAGE
RUSSIA’S PERIOD OF TERROR
United Preso Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
LONDON, .September 1 10. “The Times’ ’’ Riga correspondent reports that a new . period of ‘terror,, caused by . the, scarcity of food, is intensifying in Russia),, and especially., in South Russia, Ukraine and in the Volga'Basin* '.-A Forty-four peasants have been (sentenced to-. dentil, stoftUng 8 ,,R * n since September l, rand many, have been sentenced: to ten years imprisonment.
•OFFICIALS’ RUTHLESS .STEP.
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m, LONDON, .September 11
According to the Soviet’s oificial newspapers, judges in some districts refuse to. convict peasants charged with stealing grain., arguing that tlie grain does not belong to the Government, but to those who saved. R. This has resulted in. the Izvestia Pravda announcing that the death penalty must be inflicted even more ruthlessly as peasants .are still withholding the Government’s grain quota, Causing a 'serious shortage of supplies to industrial centre.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1932, Page 5
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