SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE IN MOSCOW

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10830, 31 March 1932, Page 3

SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE IN MOSCOW

Butter Store Wrecked by Housewives. BLACK BREAD AS STAPLE DIET. London, March 30. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Express states that 1000 housewives who went to the headquarters of the butter trust when it was announced that there would bo a sale of butter, rioted when they were told that the price had been doubled. The women attacked the salesmen, broke the windows in the building and wrecked Hie store. Other women who had stood in a queue for 12 hours in finest of sugar, started to riot when they were told that the supplies were exhausted. The correspondent says there has been literally nothing to buy in most of the stores at Moscow recently. The staple diet of thousands «f people is black bread and tea. London, March 23.

The Soviet Commissar of Justice lias passed a plan for extending the employment of prison labour this year, with a view to making production, expressed in money terms, threefold that of 1931. An official statement sets out that this would represent a tenfold increase since 1930, says the Riga correspondent of the Times