A ROMANTIC STORY.
AN ENGLISHMAN IN RUSSIA. LEADER DURING CHAOS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received &bv. I'6, 7.35 p.m. London, Nov. 15. The Riga correspondent of the Daily Express recounts a romantic story of an engineer, known as “The Englishman Dick,” one of the most interesting figures of the revolution. He went to i Russia as a mining expert. When the revolution commenced the bourgeoise fled, but “Dick” was chosen as “dictator” by the workers. He began to organise food production and showed the miners how to cultivate vegetables and grain. He constructed a short railway to the peat beds when the coal supplies were cut off by the paralysis of the railways. He next constructed ovens to make peat into coke for his furnaces, and finally brought the production of his mines above the pre-war level. To-day his district saves the whole Russian metal industry from a complete breakdown. —Aus..N-Z- Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1921, Page 5
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152A ROMANTIC STORY. Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1921, Page 5
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