RUSSIA LACKING FOOD
GRAVE DISORDERS FEARED
TURNIPS INSTEAD OF BR/EAD. RIGA, Oc.t. 9. Representatives of the Leningrad) and Moscow Soviets are considering the problems, arising from the serious food position. The Leningrad representatives have predicted grave, disorders unless the big cities are better fed. Secret police and military barely prevented, serious riots when workmen refused 21b of turnips ■or lib of oats instead of the bread ration and demanded the immediate! cessation of grain exports. j It was decided: that the Council of! People’s Commissaries must immerii-| atelv clear up the position. ; The “Pravda,” the Moscow Soviet’s' organ, admits that Russia Is unahle to deliver large quantities of wheat sold for future delivery.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 23 October 1930, Page 8
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113RUSSIA LACKING FOOD Hawera Star, Volume L, 23 October 1930, Page 8
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