SOVIET FEROCITY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 616, 22 August 1933, Page 5

SOVIET FEROCITY

(Press. .Aiisn. —

levies on grain TELEGRAPH "OVERBURDENED" WITH DETAILS OF DEATH ; - SENTENCE-S - A GRIM' CAMPAIGN

By Telegraph — CnpjTlght).

Rec. August '2, 5.5 p.m. Moscow, August 20. The price of bread has doubled in Government -shops - throughout Russia, Paradoxically, this is due to> the bumper grain crop as the Soviet is pr-eparing- to discontinue bread rationing and is theref ore trying to regu'late "the official marketing prices. - • The Times -Riga correspondent says that, - intensifying the campaign against grain wreckers, the Soviet Government has suspended -the regulations requiring the provincial courts to telegraph the Supreme.Court when they impose death sentences on the grounds that this -procedure "is useless, involves wasteful expediture and overburdens the telegraph system." Picked Gommunists-have been sent throughout the country to strengthen the punitive forces which now number 70,000. Judges have been sent -on pircular tours to pass the death sentr ence on peasants and directors'of collectiv© farms who have failed to deliver the stipulated quantities of- grain on the due dates. The death sentences have reached an enormous total and 1;he ferocity of the campaign surpasses anything since the first revolution. » 1 •

Chief Commissor of the U.S.S.R. WI10 is directmg a ruthless campaign against the grain wreckers.