SOVIET GRAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1933, Page 5

SOVIET GRAIN

WAR ON WRECKERS

ENORMOUS FEROCITY CAMPAIGN.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.)

MOSCOW, August 21

The price of bread has Ibeen doubled in the Government shops throughout [Russia. Paradoxically, this js due to there being a bumper grain ci‘°p. The Government is preparing to discontinue the bread rationing. Therefore it is trying to bring the official and the free marketing price s together. The “Times’ ” [Riga correspondent states: Intensifying its campaign against grain wreckers, the .Soviet has suspended its .regulations requiring the Provinei >1 o°urt s telegraphically to inform the Supreme Court when ever they pass death as “it is useless, involves ' wasteful expenditure, and overburdens the telegraph system.”

Picked Communists have been sent throughout the country to strengthen, the punitive forces, numbering seventy thousand. Judges have been sent on a circular tour to pas s the death sentence on peasants and on the directors of collective farms failing to deliver the stipulated amount of grain on the pre’soi’i'bpd date. These death sentences are “an enormous ferocity campaign, which surpasses any since the first revolution. The Soviet has appointed a Colonisation Committee to settle unpopulated 'Russian territory. M. OJuva. loff, former Chief of the Moscow Military has been appoited chairman.

HIGH SOVIET YIELD EXPECTED

MOSCOW, August 17,

A high yield in grain deliveries is a feature of the harvest, states the Toss Agency. The August programme of collective farms in the KharkovLeningrad regions ' were more than fulfilled before schedule time. Some districts have already completed the year’s programme.

ARGENTINE CROPS NEED RAIN

BUENOS AIRES, August 20

The Argentine grain crops are faced with disaster .unless abundant rains materialise ,in the Immediate future, according to a Government report issued to-day. The condition , of the growing wheat, oats, barley and rye is .described as poor, due to • a prolonged drought. -T. . . x-n -

The damage is acr graveled by a. continuous .frost of unusual intensity. The crops in most sections are still .in A condition to .respond beneficially to rains, but these must come immediately.