FOOD SHORTAGE
GREAT SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE IN RUSSIA STOCK BEING RUSHED INTO CITIES DISASTER FORESHADOWED (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (••Times” Cables.) (Ree. November 19, 7.15 p.m.) Riga, November 19. “Swine queues awaiting slaughter” is how the Soviet newspapers allude to an extraordinary influx of live animals into the cilies. The authorities complain'of the importation into Moscow, Leningrad and the principal central towns of tenfold tlie normal quantifies. The “Pravda” says that hundreds die daily because they are overcrowded in the stalls adjacent to the slaughterhouses, which are working two shifts u day, but tlie queues increase. Moscow normally killed a thousand per .ay. but tlie queue numbers fourteen thou-md. Leningrad kills five hundred, and eight thousand are queued up.
Soviet newspapers declare that disaster is certain, because the peasants in all tlie dairy districts are selling dairy cows and pedigree cattle for slaughter owing to the careity of fodder. The population of Moscow and Leningrad are consuming double the normal amount of meal owing, to the scarcity of other foodstuffs.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 48, 20 November 1928, Page 11
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172FOOD SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 48, 20 November 1928, Page 11
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