DEATH FOR THEFT
(Press. Assn.-
rigorous measures by soviet to check looting
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
Rec. Aug. 26, 5 p.m. Moscow, August 25. So deficient are the compulsory deliveries of farm produce that the Soviet is intensifying prosecutions for stealing socialised goods. Fourteen have been sentenced to death since Monday, while 11 peasants were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and their property confiscated. "Too mucli leniency has been shown," says the Soviet official organ Pravda, in welcoming a new decree inflicting the death penalty for thefts of food. Forty thousand consignments, of a total weight of 1538 tons, were stolen from the Russian railways, during the first six months of 1932, according to an official estimate. Mostly flour, rice and other foods were contained in the stolen consignments. The principal offenders were managers of goods depots,* clerks, railway guards and arnied bands.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 312, 27 August 1932, Page 5
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142DEATH FOR THEFT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 312, 27 August 1932, Page 5
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