SOVIET GRAIN
GREAT DROP IN EXPORTS HOARDING BY PEASANTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 8. (Received January 9, at 8.50 ajn.)l The ‘ Berliner Tageblatt’s ’ Moscow correspondent slates that the Soviet’s export of grain, which was 12,000,000 tons annually before tho war, and was •‘1,000,000 tons last year, cannot exceed 1,000,000 for the current year, .while a decline to 000,000 tons is not impossible.
The peasant brings *o market only (35 per cent, of tiro grain compared with before the war.
The 1 Daily Express ’ states that the peasants are hoarding the harvest, and are willing to sell only at prices which the State is unwilling to pay. Tha authorities arc organising fierce drives to force the surrender of the grain sur* plus.
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Evening Star, Issue 19759, 9 January 1928, Page 5
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