DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD IN RUSSIA.
UNDERTAKEN BY MUNICIPALITIES. MINISTER ADMITS HAVING MADE BLUNDERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 14, 12.40 p.m.) PETROGRAD, March 13. Yielding to popular demonstrations, the Government has decided to hand over the control of the food supply to the municipalities, which have been endowed witli extraordinary powers. They are organising the distribution of bread and are introdtieirig the card system. The Minister of Agriculture admits that blunders have been made. lie points out that the present disorders are mainly due to public lack of confidence, combined with the delaying of supplies by snowstorms.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 964, 14 March 1917, Page 11
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