RUSSIA’S BEST TROOPS
SENT TO EASTERN FRONTIERS PAY TO BE INCREASED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ‘ MOSCOW, December 13. (Received Dec. 14, at 1.30 a.ra.) M. Stalin has issued a decree increasing by 50 per cent, the pay of soldiers hi the Far Eastern areas of Siberia, increasing the wages- of workmen and specialists in the coal industry by 30 per cent., and in other industries by 20 per cent. The' decree also exempts farmers from delivering quotas of grain to the Government, and reduces the compulsory deliveries of meat, potatoes, butter, and milk. The Daily Express says M. Stalin’s aim is to build up a large and wellfed population just inside Russia’s Far Eastern frontiers, where now the best troops are being sent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 10
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