SOVIET MACHINERY
VITAL PARTS MISSING TRIAL OP ALLEGED WRECKERS. LONDON, August 3. (Received August 3, at 8 p.m.) The Riga correspondent of The Times says that the arrest of numerous responsible officials, including 18 directors of harvesting machinery and tractors, has been ordered by the Soviet in connection with a plan to stimulate harvesting by the prosecution of “grain barbers” and other wreckers. The prisoners are accused of wrecking the harvesting plans by the delivery of incomplete machinery, lacking the vital parts, resulting in 1000 new harvesters being idle on farms, while local mechanics increased the disorder by attempting to correct the deficiencies by stealing magnetos and carburettors from complete machines en route to the railways. The thefts continued even when the parts were sent separately from the factories. The authorities have proclaimed the theft of magnetos a capital crime and ordered a general lightning census of complete and incomplete machines and the distribution of missing parts by aeroplane. —Times Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22023, 4 August 1933, Page 9
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