CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA
FOOD SUPPLY BUNGLE
LONDON, Dec. 19
According to the Moscow correspondent of the Daily News, the sudden and acute bread shortage is partly due to falls of snow, which are hindering transport, and causing the longest queues since the introduction of the new economic policy. Yesterday the co-operative shops sold out by 7 a.m. The crowd waited hours with the temperature at zero, and then besieged private bakeries and smashed windows, after which the secret police, with the assistance of the co-operative managers, established an urgent tribunal to punish the "culprit officials" who had been responsible for the shortage -within two days.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16837, 28 December 1928, Page 8
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