SPIES IN LENINGRAD.
Employed To Ensure Working Of Bread Rationing. ARRESTS FOR SPECULATING. ('Times" Cables.) LONDON, February 24. The Riga correspondent of the "Times"' says there are 1200 proletarian watchers, otherwise spies, employed in Leningrad to ensure the working of the bread rationing system, who inspect cards and examine purchases. There are 1500 watchers in Moscow. Three hundred members of the cooperative societies have been arrested in Leningrad and have been charged with speculating in bread cards. Ail these have meanwhile been placed in the cardless category.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 47, 25 February 1929, Page 7
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87SPIES IN LENINGRAD. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 47, 25 February 1929, Page 7
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