SOVIET DECREES

Grey River Argus, 7 December 1932, Page 8

SOVIET DECREES

TO MEET BREAD SHORTAGE. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn ) LONDON, December •'». “Tm Times’s” Riga corrosponden* .-lutes: Attempts to utilise food cards. i ; i\a'jdated by dismissal for truanev, •.v'.ll be | unishable by death, aceord iiig to Stalin's decree authorising directors of factories to conti'd food Anot her Cccree permlLs. peasants in certain areas selling gram :.•.<! llmir on the open market /at an uniestrictcd price instead of waiting until January. 3'he decree explains that Hie privilege is due because these arcus sup; lied the Government’s grain quoin, but the truth is that. Hie measure is nei-essarv t° correct the food s.-arcitv m Moscow and I-eningrad. v. kero people. often bread queue for ten to lwel\e hours, after wlncn somo me not supplied owing- to the supply I eing exlianstcd.