FOOD SHORTAGE
MOSCOW’S SERIOUS'PLIGHT.
CRISIS IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY,
QUARTER OF A MILLION WORKLESS.
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Times Cables.)
Received September 5, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 4. Tho Times’s Riga correspondent states that the bread shortage in Moscow is so acute that the authorities have suspended the sale of flour. It is not expected that the situation will improve before October, owing to tho necessity of sending supplies to the surrounding districts, where tho need, according to M. Ukhanoff, chairman of the Moscow Soviet, is worse than Moscow’s.
The shortage of meat, especially ham and sausages, is causing lengthy queues. The supplies reaching' Moscow total only twenty-five p'er cent, of the requirements. There is also a lack of clothing, owing to the textilo crisis, which is due to a scarcity of raw materials.
The unemployed in Moscow total a quarter of a million.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1928, Page 7
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