EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20866, 5 November 1929, Page 11

EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA

HEAVY TOLL EVERY DAY.

THE MAJORITY PEASANTS,

(United Preßß Association.)

(By,Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, November 4,

(Received Nov. 4, at 9 p.m.) . The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Express states that wealthy land owners in many parts of Russia have begun a kind of guerilla warfare on local Soviet authorities as a protest against attempts to force the peasants to give up .their stores of grain for the benefit of the people of the great cities, who are faced with the fear of famine during the coming winter. The reply of the authorities is the revolver of the executioners, who are kept busy every day. The ravages of anti-Soviet terrorists are executed with amazing boldness in the Ukraine, where secret spcieties post lists "openly warning intended Government victims that their homes will be burned., One society set fire to 30 buildings on a co-opei Mve farm in a single night, and the Government in retaliation announced 14 death sentences on Saturday, or whom 11 were peasants. The courts pronounced 12 more sentences upon upper' class peasants ,on Sunday for murder and arson.