HARD-HEARTED SOVIET.
EXPULSION OF 290,000 PEOPLE. ONE ROOM—RENT £100. (Received 1-.30 p.m.) RIGA, January 25. The Soviet Government is expelling 200,000 people from Moscow owing to housing shortage. Trotsky's adiiercnts and merchants who recently returned to Moscow under Lenin's new economic policy arc specially subject to expulsion. ' Communists are taking over houses. Some merchants bribed Communists to the extent of £100 for the use of a single room.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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