SOVIET TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1933, Page 5

SOVIET TROUBLE

NOT SABOTAGE

NEGLIGENCY WAS RESPONSIBLE

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LONDON, March '23

“The Times’” correspondent at R'gi gays: The Soviet commissariat of heavy industry continues to record negligence, that is tantamount, to wrecking, in connection with the transport of valuable imported machinery. For example, 140 tons of machinery was found at Odessa, where it had been left for over two months in the open air rusting. Under the weight of one machine, a quayside collapsed. After a few weeks, the machine itself disappeared in the Black Sea.

The newspaper “Pravda” records the discovery of a consignment of machinery that has been lost in Georgia for two years, though it still is clearly addressed to Perm. How it arried in Georgia, nobody knows, and “Pravda” winders whether anybody cares.

The Ural copper industry has just discovered imported machinery valued originally at between two and three milieus of gold roubles, Some of it has lain in the open since 1927, serving as a convenient source for anybody requiring spare nuts, bolts, or others parts, The remnants are now a heap of rusty metal partly buried in sand,

The commissariat says that the estimated value of the machinery in question is mere conjecture, because it is impossible to recognise some of the machines.