SHORTAGE OF FOOD
PLIGHT OF RUSSIANS ANOTHER DRASTIC DECREE LONDON, Dec. 5 The Itiga correspondent of the Times says attempts to utilise food cards rendered invalid by dismissal of workers for leaving their jobs, have been made punishable by death, according to Stalin s decree authorising the directors of factories to control food supplies. .Another decree permits peasants in certain areas to begin selling grain and flour in the open market at unrestricted prices, instead of waiting until January. This decree explains that the privilege is due to the areas having supplied the Government's grain quota, but the correspondent says the truth is that the measure is necessary to correct the food scarcity in Moscow and Leningrad, where people are often in bread queues for 10 or 12 hours, after which fliev cannot be supplied as the bread is exhausted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21359, 7 December 1932, Page 11
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