THE DEATH PENALTY.
FOOD THEFTS IN RUSSIA. “Too much leniency has been shown,’’ savs the Soviet official organ, Pravda. in welcoming a new degree inflicting the death penalty for theits of food. Fortv thousand consignments, ot a total weight of 153 S tons, were stolen from the Russian railways during the first six months of 1932, according to an official estimate. . Mostly flour, rice and otner foods were contained in the stolen consignments. The principal offenders were managers of goods depots, clerks, raiiwav guards and armed bands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 230, 29 August 1932, Page 2
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