FARMING BY FORCE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12438, 2 September 1933, Page 2

FARMING BY FORCE.

SOVIET’S VAST NEW SCHEME. VILLAGES EJECTED United Press Assn.— Bv EJectr T elegr aph—Copy r 1 gk t. LONDON. August 31. The Times’ Riga (orropondt nt says that the Soviet has pi« pared a vast new agricultural cattle broiling scheme designed to supplement the collective fanning system Besides organising settlement in remote regions, particularly Siberia. and bringing virgin soil into cultivation, the plan affects the entire |>easantrv and aims at absorbing the refract ry peasants banished from tin homelands, also the dispersing or destroying of recalcitrant national minorities resisting the socialisation of agriculture. The latter part of the plan h; ready been enforced against the flbssacks in the North Caucasus - T it scale only now revealed. Whole villages during the past year have be»n ejected and homes transported to the remote north and Siberia by tramloads. Cossack farmers on crowded cattle trucks, and scantily clodied. have been despatched to un! Mown destination* and new populations have been imported into soni* villages, while others were simply urned. Fugitives were shot and th< -ands of male Cossacks were ser.t t . vict camps. 'Hie convicts who construct d the White Sea to the Baltic canal v * already begun digging the canal from Moscow to the Volga.