THE GRAIN BARBERS
OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA
SCISSORS TO CUT OFF EARS
(Received August 10, 2 p.m.) LONDON, August 9. The '' Daily Telegraph }s" Moscow correspondent says that thousands of children have been enrolled in agricultural areas as auxiliary police to track down grain thieves and people damaging crops. It is officially stated that four thousand young. Communists aro thus engaged in the North Caucasus alone. A typical report in the Journal of the Commissariat of Agriculture reads that a party of boys and girls caught women cutting the ears of wheat with scissors.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1933, Page 12
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