RUSSIA RATIONED.
Peasants Boycott Soviet Grain Collectors.
SERIOUS IVELOPS. LONDON, July 9. The "Daily Mail" says the general secretary of the Communist party in Russia, Joseph Stalin, is buying foreign wheat in order to stave off serious disturbances which might overthrow the Soviet. The Moscow newspaper, "Pravda" admits that the peasants have realised their strength and that their boycott of the Soviet's grain collectors has become stabilised and has produced serious difficulties. The paper says the people in the towns have been rationed and serious riots have n*- <• ur re d outside State-owned cooperative stores. In nany cities the Available controlled supplies are diminishing and imports are necessary to prevent famine. The peasants have used large quantities of grain tor distilling vodka and have burned larger | quantities on hearing rumours of a puni- ' tive force being sent from Moscow.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 10 July 1928, Page 7
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