SOVIET ACTIVITY
IN THE FAR EAST
POPULATING THE FRONTIERS
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received this day at 10.5 a.in.) MOSCOW, December 13
M. 'Stalin has issued a decree increasing by fifty per cent, the pay of soldiers' in the Far Eastern areas .in Siberia, and increasing wages of workmen and specialists in the coal- industry by thirty per cent., and other indus.rics by twenty per cent., also exempting farmers from delivering quotas of grain to the Government, and reducing compulsory deliveries of meat, potatoes, butter and milk. The “Daily Express” says that iStalin’s aim i 6 to build up a larger and wel'-fed population just inside I Russia’s far eastern fron.iers, where now the best troops are being sent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1933, Page 5
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