SOVIET REGIME FAILS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 19 September 1925, Page 9

SOVIET REGIME FAILS.

Attempt to Pacify Peasants ALLEGED EXTORTION AND BRIBERY. By Cable'—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 18, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. The “Morning Post” states: “Tho efforts of the Russian Government to pacify the peasantry have met with scant success. Tho peasants are refusing to sell foodstnffs, unless they receive their requirements of manufactures. The peasants send investigators to tee market town, to find what goods are offered. If the report is unfavourable, no grain is marketed. Even when an army of Soviet grain buyers . invade tee countryside, many peasants still refuse to sell, knowing they will not be able to purchase their much-needed goods. ' “State undertakings have also been cheating the peasants by selling inferior goods at extortionate prices, and are now without sufficient provisions to feed tee towns or districts where the crops failed. “Another symptom of the peasant discontent, is tee voluntary migration to Syria. Many thousands of peasants are going.”