PEASANT VICTORY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 9

PEASANT VICTORY

SOVIET ABANDONS NEW FARMING SYSTEM R ecd. noon. LONDON. Tuesday. Daily Chronicle” correspondent at Berlin says that authentic statmenis trom Warsaw confirm the reports of terrible scenes on the Russo-PolisU frontier, where a stampede of peasants from Russia is in progress owing to the intolerable conditions of life They declare that they would rather die than remain in Russia. At the beginning the Polish frontier guards had either to let them pass or shoot them down. The guards had not the heart to force them back as the unfortunates were starving and they stated that their villages had been razed to the ground. Most of the inhabitants were killed and only a small minoritv escaped. It is also reported that a large number captured were shot by Russian frontier guards before they reached safety. All peasants have been called on to hand over their private property to the Soviet, being severely taxed if the property is not handed over Vithin 24 hours. Two thousand Russians have already crossed into Poland, but the Esthonian guards have been ordered not to let the fugitives pass, thus these are being driven back to certain death at the hands of the Soviet guards. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent at Berlin states that the Russian peasants have again won a great victory over Bolshevism. M. Stalin announces that he has abandoned the socialising of agriculture and is substituting group co-part-nership in agriculture. A previous message announced that “the complete militarisation of Russian agriculture becomes effective immediately by Government decrees just issued, establishing collective farms worked by labour brigades under “brigadiers.” Various brigades are mobilised for specialised duties; for example, horse brigades, oxen brigade and tractor brigades. Brigadiers arc expressly forbidden to establish equality of payments which vary according to the importance of the work undertaken and the actual work accomplished either by individuals or by whole brigades.”