MACHINE-GUN BATTLE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

MACHINE-GUN BATTLE

■fr Serious Riots in Soviet Prison Serious riots broke out in the Ural Mountains Concentration Camp recently, due to the cold and the poor diet on which the political prisoners have to live, states a recent Moscow report. Prisoners attacked the G.P.U. warders, demanding warmer clothes and better food. The warders replied by firing at them, killing and wounding a number of persons. The incident led to a pitched battle, in which the jailers had to use machine-guns. Anxierv is growing among the high Soviet officials at the serious disintegration and chaos already apparent in Industry. The most powerful economic daily, “Industrialisation,” has launched a powerful attack ftn the subject. ‘‘lt is the managers and leaders of industrial undertakings who are imbued with Trotskyist ideas, and a narrow mercantile outlook, who are to blame for all the mess that Is go evident everywhere,” it thunders. Gladselmash, the Soviet trust firm manufacturing agricultural implements, has- this year failed to deliver

the required quantity of t actors and ploughs, thus lowering the prospects of this year’s harvest. By its Rostov branch, which was due to deliver 4750 ploughs in the first quarter of the year, none has been delivered. The agricultural machinery factory In Kirov, ordered to deliver by April 1 I 12.000 grain-sowing machines, has so ; far delivered none. I The supply of cultivators it, less unsatisfactory, for the State factories have 60 far delivered about 25 per cent, of the required number. i The Ukraine, which was supposed to ' receive 4000 cultivators, has so far had ' only 724, while the Azov district has received only 30 of the 236 equired. i The building trade is no better. As ! the debare of the Eleventh City Planning Congress revealed, the reconstruction of Rostov-on-Don Is still unfinished although many “planning . experts” have been working on it for 1 10 years. I The Soviet Government has announced a plan to make Moscow the ■ maritime centre of Russia. By four ■ gigantic canals the capital is to be link- ! ed with the Caspian, Black, Baltic, and I White Seas. Near Stalingrad six huge electroI hydraulic stations are to be harnessed i to supply electric current for the whole j Volga Basin, if the plans are executed-