SOVIET TROUBLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10735, 5 November 1928, Page 5

SOVIET TROUBLES.

BATTLE FOR GRAIN AND METAL . ' United Pres* Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Assooiation.) (Received Nov. 4. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 3. Tho Daily Mail’s Moscow correspondent states.that, daily, there are fights between the Soviet grain commissars endeavoring to obtain supplies, necessitating special police .separating them. Grain previoply sold to official buyers was snatched forcibly by different officials and gram was taken from tho peasants . who had already sold it to -the Government. Pravda advocates the revival of terrorism to secure grain if the peasants refuse to sell. Between August 15 and September 15 fortyfour peasants were fatally shot and thirty-three officials wore reported missing(Times Cables.) . LONDON, Nov. 3. The Times’ Riga correspondent states that tlio Soviet’s Supreme Economic Council hast appealed to all Soviet organisations and private persons to use greater efforts to collect old iron. The public announcement declares tho seriousness of the metal famine has not zeen realised. The production of the Soviet blast furnaces is over 20 ne-r cent, below pre-war. Nine hundred thousand toni3 of old iron must be gathered, of which the railways and shipping should yield one-third. The railways have been ordered to give it precedence to all other freights.