TROUBLE IN RUSSIA
PEASANTS HOLDING GRAIN. Riga, Aug. 20. The refusal of Russian peasants to deliver the grain crop is perturbing the Soviet. Only a quarter of the stipulated quantity was delivered in the first half of August, the.peasants hoping to sell concealed grain privately. Government agents discovered a quantity of grain hidden in tho lower Volga district, but the peasants set fire to the bulk of it, the agents saving only a small proportion. Eighteen peasants were then shot without trial. Black Sea and Central Asian peasants are burning their crops wholesale in prefrenco to delivering them to the Soviet agents, with whom they are waging desperate warfare. The Government, considering the employment of the Red Army impolitic, is despatching punitive expeditions, coir sisting of Ogpu (secret police) and military and young Communist pioneers, forcibly to collect tho crops.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1930, Page 7
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