AT MUTINY POINT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21529, 29 December 1931, Page 7

AT MUTINY POINT

RUSSIAN POPULATION LONDON, December 18, Russia, with its population diseased and lacking food and Clothing, and thousands in the throes of starvation, faces one of the severest winters in its history. An executive officer 1 of Messrs Gordon and Getty, one of ■ the largest foreign contractors in Russia, in an interview ! with the Sunday Graphic, gives an appalling description of the terrible conditions in' Russia.» The Russians are driven to desperation, he states, and only women maintain Communism. The ■ Amazons, equipped \ with book knowledge, but without industrial experience; dominate the mines and factories. Shocking accidents occur in the Dbn basin area each week, ■ Recently 70 were killed by being entombed, because the speed of coal extraction forbade the timbering mf the drives. '-i ''< ■ . ‘ \■„ The , populace starves in order to enable a foreign trade monopoly in the export of produce, to establish, foreign credits to buy machinery, to -carry on the five-year plan. Meat is practically unknown, and this has resulted in an almost universal disease, which shows in bloated stomachs, bowed shoulders,, sapping physique and mentality! The j gravity of the position has led to the curtailment of exports in order to re- f lieve starvation. i Eighty-five per cent, pf Moscow’s population is at mutiny point. Doctors - deal with thousands of patients daily suffering from gruesome diseases due to moral laxity. Thousands are dying from pneumonia. . It is recognised that if Russian goods arc excluded from England, which takes one-third of the Soviet’s exports, the five-year plan, as far as the light'industries are concerned, will fail.