PROPERTY SACRED.
LATEST SOVIET UKASE. SPY CORPS. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) (Published in The Times.) LONDON, Sept. 5. The Soviet Supreme Oourt has order■ed immediate organisation of a permanent corps of informers to assist in the protection of crops, threshed grain, smd foodstuffs, reports the Riga correspondent of The Times. They are regularly to deliver reports •and receive instructions with a view of becoming a body of expert detectives . guarding Soviet property throughout the union. ■ , The official announcement adds that the corps is designed’ primarily, to as--sist enforcement 'of' the Government’s •decree providing death sentences for -grain thieves, but it is also intended to convince the masses that the ‘'Socialist . property in the Soviet Union is infinitely more sacred and inviolable than private property in bourgeois •States.” ; . The decree against grain thieves is •producing bitter strife among the peasants, owing to mutual espionage. This ■apparently is Moscow’s chief object, -as a united peasantry is regarded as -dangerous. Fifty persons have already been exe--cuted by firing squads for stealing soeaalised goods.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1932, Page 5
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