SOVIET’S FRONTIER PROBLEMS
INTERESTING DECISION ANNOUNCED. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 13. 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 13. It is reported from Moscow that M. Stalin has issued a decree increasing by 50 per cent the pay of soldiers in the far eastern areas of Siberia, increasing the wages of workmen specialists in the coal industry by 30 per cent, and in other industries by 20 per cent, also exempting farmers from delivering quotas of grain to the Government, and reducing the compulsory deliveries of wheat, potatoes, butter and milk. “The Daily Express” says that M. Stalin’s aim is to build up a larger, well-fed population just inside Russia’s far eastern frontier, where now the best troops are being 1 sent.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19672, 14 December 1933, Page 9
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