THEFTS OF FOOD
PENALTY IN RUSSIA | DECREE INFLICTING DEATH. ii MOSCOW, August 17. "Too much leniency has been shown," ■ays the Soviet official organ Pravda, in •welcoming a new decree inflicting the death penalty for thefts of food. Forty thousand consignments, of a total weight of 1538 tons, were stolen from the Russian railways during the first., six months of 1932, according to *n official estimate. Mostly flour, rice and other foods were contained in the stolen consignments. The principal offenders were managers of goods depots, clerks, railway guards and armed bands.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21736, 30 August 1932, Page 9
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92THEFTS OF FOOD Otago Daily Times, Issue 21736, 30 August 1932, Page 9
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