RUSSIAN INCENDIARIES
ALARMING FIRE FIGURES LEADERS PERTURBED Times Cable. Reed. 10.18 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” telegraphs: Entitled “Alarming Figures,” the Soviet has published a report that arson incidental fires over the countryside since October, 1927, number 110,000, largely due to strife, vengeance anti hooliganism. One village was set afire 21 times, another 20. a third 18. Eight villages were completely destroyed. The correspondent says the Agricul tural Commissars throughout Russia held a conference to consider a request from the directors of the Soviet farm not only for the cancellation of the farm debts, but for a loan of 152,000,000 roubles as the only way out of a hopeless situation. The spokesman, M. DmitrieEf, disclosed the fact that the farm debts had grown from 22,000,000 roubles in four years. The wages were four months in arrears, and the failure of the enterprise had seriously affected the Soviet’s agricultural policy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 9
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