GRAIN FROM RUSSIA.
GREAT DECLINE IN EXPORT. PEASANTS HOARDING HARVEST. (A.P.A. and “Sun” Cables.) (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 8. The “Berliner Tageblatt’s” Moscow correspondent states that the Soviet’s report of grain, which was 12,000,000 tons annually before the Avar, and A\ r as 3,000,000 last year cannot exceed one million in the current year, while a decline t*. 600,000 is not impossible. The peasant, brings to market only 65 per cent-, of grain compared with his produce before the war. The “Daily Express” states that the peasants are hoarding the harvest and are Avilling to sell only at prices the State is unwilling to pay. The authorities are organising fierce dri\ r es to force the surrender of the grain surplus.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 75, 9 January 1928, Page 5
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