SOVIET SCHEMES

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1933, Page 7

SOVIET SCHEMES

MR MONKHOUSE’S ESTIMATE. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, July 14. Mr Allan Monkhouse, addressing the Manchester Rotary Club, urged that everything should be done to foster trade between Russia and Britain. He said that the present regime in Russia must be credited with having tackled a most important problem of national economy. “Many in- England,” he said, “feel that such a system will ultimately be necessary in other countries. The Five Year Plan succeeded in some directions, particularly in electricity; but it failed in connection with agriculture, while the heavy industries, such as iron, steel and coal are a long way from expectations. Efforts to improve education and welfare work have been strikingly successful. Young Russia, which has never known any other system except the Soviet, is settling down happily, though it is to a purely material happiness. The second part of the Five Year Plan included a 17miles dam across the Volga which would irrigate all the wheat country, and Russia would then never again fear a drought.” TRAGIC INEFFICIENCY (Rec. Julv 15, 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 14. It is feared that a hundred lives were lost in the capsize of a Volga launch conveying workers and families numbering 250, on an excursion. Seventy bodies have been recovered. The Soviet has ordered the trial of the Union organisers, allegedly permitting the overcrowding of the launch.