RUSSIA FROM WITHIN
• STATE OP AGRICULTURE'_ ' Australian Press Association. ' (Received, 30th May, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 29th May. The- "Daily Express's" special correspondent, in his second article examines the wheat problem. .Ho points out that despite three successi\o good harvests Russia is only ablo to1 carry on, and is not extending her cultivation, lie visited' tho Ukraine to find the cause and discovered that a severe conflict was proceeding between the State and the peasants. The iattcr were forced to sell their wheat to tho former at 2s 6d per pood (thirty-six pounds avoirdupois). Tho coutivators say that this is not enough-to buy requisites at the rural co-oporativc stores. ' Some time ago the rural stores were practically empty and the Soviet forced city shops to send goods to tho country. Tho result is that tho Leningrad shops have short supplies, and still only open for a. few hours in tlio middle of the day, when they are besieged by queues similar to those familiar during tho war at the food shops iri Britain. . ... . . . . . -
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 11
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172RUSSIA FROM WITHIN Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 11
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