MOSCOW TO BE REBUILT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 9

MOSCOW TO BE REBUILT

DRASTIC EVICTION ORDER ox ft Rooaj por woo LONDON, duly 2.1. A -harsh eviction decree issued hy t-ho Soviet Government this week n - lease? the city of Moscow, Leningrad, and Iviefi— Euripo'an !>;is-1 sia's three 'Overcrowded capitals—j from the obligation io provide alternative housing for those whose loving I quarters are to he pulled down us n result of :i grandiose urban planning scheme-. Citizens thus evicted will be given only two months' notice and paid an indemnity equivalent to £3O per person in Moscow, and i!l!"> in Leningrad . and KiofY. There is not one room, ; according to the Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, which can be purchased legally in Moscow, : although a small one might be obtained illicitly for not less than the equivalent of £3OO. Those evicted are advised to build : themselves shacks outside the city, but ' the poorest shades crist It) times flic ' indemnities offered. Moscow's recon- : struct ion, which has hitherto been ; delayed by the need to build alternu- ' tive housing, will go ahead, and a vast number of old houses in the centre of the citv will be donwlishod. This year ' about '7,000,000 square feet of floor .