STARVING HORDES FIRED ON.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20648, 10 September 1932, Page 15

STARVING HORDES FIRED ON.

■ : ▼ RUSSIAN FOOD RIOTS. STORE ANI? HOUSES LOOTED. (Received September 9th, 9.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, September 9. The worst food riots sinee the end of the war occurred in the northern textile centre of Ivanovovoznesensk, Troops of the Red Army fired into starving hordes who were st.orming and looting the Government store and houses. PROTECTION OF FOOD. SOVIET'S CORPS OF SPIES. LONDON, August 31. The Soviet Supreme Court has ordered the immediate organisation of- a permanent corps of informers to assist in the protection of crops, threshed grain, and foodstuffs, reports the Riga correspondent of "The Times." They are rcgulurly to deliver reports and receive instructions with a view to becoming a body of expert detectives guarding Soviet property throughout the Union. The official announcement adds that the corps is designed primarily to assist in the enforcement of the Government's decree providing death sentences for grain thieves, but it is also to convince the masses that the " Socialist property in the Soviet Union is infinitely more sacred and inviolable than privrite property in bourgeois States.' The decree against grain thieves is producing bitter strife among the peasants, owing to .mutual espionage. This apparently is Moscow's chief object, as a united peasantry is regarded as dangerous. ' -