ARMY OF SPIES FOR RATIONING OF BREAD
SUSPECTS REFUSED CARDS. Times Cable. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 23. The Times Riga correspondent states there aro 1200 proletarian watchers, otherwise spies, employed in Leningrad alono to ensuro tho working of bread rationing, inspecting cards, and examining purchases. There are 1500 watchers in Moscow. Three hundred members of co-opera-tive- societies have been arrested in Leningrad, charged with speculating in bread cards. Ail meanwhile have been placed in the cardless category.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 25 February 1929, Page 7
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79ARMY OF SPIES FOR RATIONING OF BREAD Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 25 February 1929, Page 7
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