Death Sentences for Tardy Grain Harvesters

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7241, 22 August 1933, Page 7

Death Sentences for Tardy Grain Harvesters

SOVIET WAY Or SPEEDING UP PRODUCTION United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 21. The Times’ Riga correspondent states: “Intensifying its campaign against grain-wreckers, the Soviet has suspended the regulation requiring provincial courts telegraphically to inform the Supreme Court whonever they pass death sentences, as it is useless, involves wasteful expenditure and overburdens the telegraph system.” Picked Communists have been sent throughout the country to strengthen the punitive forces, numbering 70,000, and judges have been sent on a circular tour to pass the death sentence on peasants and directors of collective farms failing to deliver the stipulated grain on the prescribed date.

Tho death sentences are enormous and tho ferocity of the campaign surpasses any since the revolution. The Soviet has appointed a colonisation committee to settle unpopulated Russian territory. M. Aluraloff, former chief of the Aloscow Military district, has been appointed chairman. Price of Bread Goes Up Received Alonday, 7 p.m. AIOSCOW, Aug. 21. Tho price of bread has been doubled at the Government shops throughout Russia. Paradoxically this is duo to a bumper grain crop. The Government is preparing to discontinue bread rationing and, therefore, is trying to bring official free marketing prices together.