SERIOUS FOOD CRISIS
PETROGRAD HAS BREAD FOR THREE DAYS
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
PETROGRAD, sth September.
The food crisis in Bussia is serious. There is only a bread reserve covering three days, and soldiers and civilians are suffering privations. The main cause of the shortage is the peasants' refusal to forward supplies owing to their inability to obtain iron, paraffin, salt, and cotton goods in exchange for grain. The Government is. unable to meet the peasants' demands owing to the_ shortage of fuel and means of transport. There are similar difficulties in Finland, where the Government has decided to make requisitions if the peasants persist in their attitude. RESULT OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS {beuter's telegbam.) • PETROGRAD, 6th Septemr.o>. The municipal elections resulted :-—Revolutionary Socialists, 73 i Maxima]' ists, 69; Constitutional Democrats, 44; miscellaneous, 12.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1917, Page 7
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