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SIMPLY DISASTROUS.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1933
STALIN'S BLATANT
"FALSIFICAION"
5-YEAR PLAN FIGURES DISPUTED
AGRICULTURE AND LIGHT
INDUSTRY FAILURES
(By E. Yourievsky.)
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YOUNG MRS. NUWEDD (hold of beacant households have been sory loans. & CO., LTD.
The China Mail quieting features of recent South African politica. The terms of the agreement hava been unanimously
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The Earl of Carlisle and Lady Ravensdale were there with parties of friends. The work of John Strachey and Joy Vinomadoff brought a following of young Chel Joseph Stalin has informed the dustry and with its left hand it has ses, who hung their pictures on the world that the Five-Year Plan has been destroying agriculture. < walls of the corridors and offered been completed in four years. For Let us turn now to the Five-Year them for sale. There were bun-weeks before his appearance on Plan in industry. dreds of working-class people in January 7 before a joint meeting of By means of Inflation, Draconic the packed theatre.
the Central Control Committee and taxation, expropriation of peasant When Mr. Robert Newton had to Central Control Commission 'n labour, exploitation of the working. say "If you want your hoy to turn Moscow, the Soviet press had been masses, the Soviet Government suc- out well, don't send him to a re preparing the public for his anceeded in a short time in covering formatory," a man in the stalls)
nouncement.
the country with a network of giant loudly ejaculated, "Hear, hear!" no
The Report on Agriculture. plants. The important point, how- carried away by emotion was he.
Let us begin with agriculture, the ever, is not that these plants have source of the nation's supply of actually been built, but at what cost Your Daily Smile.
food and clothing. Stalin asserts have these plants been constructed. that in this domain the Five-Year The Five Year Plan provided for NO SALE
Plan has been realised more than an investment of 12,000,000,000. AUTO SALESMAN: Why don't threefold He points to the fact rubles in industry between 1929 you spend your money for a car that 70 per cent. of peasant hold- and 1932. This money was to have Think how ridiculous you'd look ings have been collectivised. in the been obtained by means of "honest riding to town on the cow you want matter of collectivisation there has accumulation from industry itself. to buy...
certainly been a tremendous jump The actual investment, however, for FARMER: Maybe, so, but I'd forward.
the four years covered by Stalin's approximately 24,000- The plan provided. that B5 per report was look more ridiculous trying to milk
cent of the peasants would remain 000,000 rubles. Moreover, this free landowners. Instead, as money was taken from the budget, Stalin's report shows, 70 per cent. by means of taxation and compul ing up new hat): You wouldn't forcibly driven into the collectives. Failure in Many Fieldı. think such a simple thing would what is the result?
Stalin declared, that the produce, cost so much money, would you?.
Under the Five-Year Plan 883,- tion plan, has been fulfilled 93.7 per i PRE-OCCUPIED HUSBAND: I'm 000,009 quintals of various grains- cont. It is quite possible that in a not so sure I'd call you such a sim- wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, etc.-number of lines the Five-Year Plan
was to have been collected in 1931.ins been completed 93.7 per cent The amount actually collected was but in a great many other fielde ple thing, my dear.
REFRESHING
690,000,000. In 1992 the plan called there has been a striking fallure. Merchant (to book salesman) for 061,000,000 quintals. The esti-For instance, in the matter of Hong Kong, Saturday, April 1. 1933. accepted by the caucus of the South
African Party, and General Herr "Salesmanship"! Huh! I've no remated harvest is only 710,000,000 sulphuric acid, a basic element. In
I've forgotten more
Production on The Decline. chemical production, the Five-Year- zog has succeeded, though with for your book.
Grain production has been ton-Plan called for an output of 2,351,- rather less ease, in carrying them about salesmanship, than you ever through the Nationalist caucus,knew! .~.
"Salesmans Ah! Then may I shose stantly on the decline during the 000 tons in four years. (October 1 period of the Five Year Plan. In 1928, to October 1, 1932), The Two or three of the present Minis- Lers, notably Dr. Malan, have strong-you this work on "Memory Train 1931-32 the per capita grain collec-amount actually produced was
twenty-four tions were 88 per cent below pre- 1,696,000 tons. The coalition effected last monthly opposed the agreement, but it is ing"-complete in' between General Hertzog, the South not thought likely that they will volumes African
General receive more than a local backing.
AMPLE REVENGE Smuts is evidently progressing with Mr. Roos himself, as soon as the
"I'm surprised your mother an adequate measure of harmony agreement was announced, hastened The reassuring announcement was to telegraph his support of the pro-sents to your marriage with made yesterday that the Cabinet posed new Government, and this when she dislikes him so." had been reformed with the South; declaration of his attitude was the "That's just the reason. African and Nationalist Parties more welcome since his attack upon wants to be his mother-in-law." equally represented. The motive the gold standard had already pro-
REPLACEMENT. vitriolic exchange of force behind the new alliance be-voked
YOUNG SUITOR (hopefully): tween the two principal political vituperation between him and the parties in South Africa is the same Prime Minister. Strained personal I'd call around to-night if I thought as that which brought about the relations, a certain soreness over the you really wanted me. formation of the National Govern breakdown of his own negotiations THE GIRL: Oh, I do want you ment in Great Britain and which led with General Smuts, and the chagrin to. I've been so lonely since my purely Russian part of the Soviet to have been 4,100,000 metres. The latex to a similar development in he may not unreasonably be suppos- puppy died. Australia. A growing popular feeled to have felt over his exclusion ing demanded a truce to party con-from the coalition, for which his flict and the pooling of all the initiative was largely responsible, national resources of leadership to had led many to think that his at- meet a national emergency. This titude towards the National Gov feeling was already very general ernment would inevitably be luke- when Mr. Roos made his dramatic warm, even if it were not positively by a Colorado Inventor for balt 148,000,000, considerably more than called upon to sacrifice so muc descent from the judicial Bench hostile. Since the task of the Na-for fishing are said to be so in Australia, with a total of 125,- The specialists who drew up the three months ago to advocate co- tional Government will be to con-realistle as to deceive both fish and 000,000 sheep. As a result of the plan in 1928 maintained that the forcible collectiviaation, the number maximum possible production that operation in an attempt to cope with centrate on fighting the depression, anglers.:
of sheep in Russia was reduced to could be attained in the final yes
of the plan could not exc the prevailing depression. The Im-it has been agreed to let the ques-
78,000,000.
Now, when the balance sheet The loss in horses has been equal 75,000,000 tons of coal. ly shocking.
How great the loss in this respect being drawn, It develops has been under the Five-Year Plan the four years ending may be Jeen from the following 11-1982, the actual output of
The South African Agreement.
Premier, and
A
war. The amount collected in 1982 The copper output was to have for the needs of the Red Army, for totalled 321,000 tons. Actually only sowing purposes, feeding of cattle 175,000 tons was produced. Stallar, con-and the requirements of industry discrepancies between the plan and Eric and export was 425 to 430 kilograms fulfillment we find in cement, lum
She
Facts You Did Not Know.
Artificial worms made of rubber
mediate response from all parts of tion of native policy stand over til The Norwegian merchant fleet the Union showed that he was more prosperous times. That was includes more than 2,000 vessels of preaching to the converted. Yet one of the two issues on which the more than 4,000,000 gross tons, a things have not turned out quite as parties were most sharply divided gain of approximately 100,000 tons Mr. Boos expected. General Hert- The other, the question of the gold in a year. zog's Government had clung with standard, was settled within a week
extraordinary, tenacity to the policy of Mr. Boos's resignation from the As an experiment one of maintaining the gold standard, Bench, when, as the direct conse-transcontinental air which Mr. Boos no less than General quence of bis agitation, the
Smuts believed to be ruinous to the Government, was forced ertzog United States"in carryi
in
off and manicurists in its planes country. The immediate natural gold and subsequently decided to serve prasengers.- development therefore seemed to be link the South African currency
(a kilogram is, about 2.2 pounds) ber, paper, sugar, woollens and cot- per capita of population, as against tor textiles, which the Soviet popu 600 kilograms prescribed under the lation so desperately, requires.
According to the plan, the output Five-Year Plan.
In 1928, immediately preceding of cotton textiles in 1930-31 was the launching of the Five-Year Plan, to have been 3,600,000 metres. The there were about 53,000,000 head of actual production was 2.295,000 large horned cattle on the territory metres, or 38 per cent, below the of the R. S. F. S. Rthat is, the plan. For 1931-32 the output was
Union. In 1930 this fell to 27,000,-actual production was 2,337,000 000 In 1982 there was a further metres, or $2 per cent. below the dectine to 27,000,000. In four years plan
of collectivization the amount of live of great interest is the produc stock was reduced by 26,000,000, tion under the plan in coal and In 1928 Russia stood first in the metallurgy, the two basic industries number of sheep, which totalled for which the Russian people were
of the lustration. Before the war, in 1913, 202,000,000 tons, or almost the the the peasants in Northern Caucasus quantity estimated by the arbers had at their disposal a totalni ists, which was 203,000,000, to 3,288,000 horse power. In 1881 this Stalin's ignorant, exagge was reduced to 1,179,000, a decline mates failed complete of more than 300 per cant
Losses to Arriet Stalin and This ent constantly emphasising
Yar
One of Europe's largest, water an alliance between the South with sterling, as General Smuts had African Party on the one hand and long recommended. A compromise towers has been erected on the other hand auch Nationalists acceptable to both sides has also mouth, England, rising to a height as Mr. Ropa could detach from their been reached over the demand for of 162 feet and storing 784,000 faction that party, allegiance-ite purpose being provincial autonomy, which has re-gallons of water.
to turn out the Hertzog Government cently been put forward from Natal
Cape Colony led by Dr. it is per
afgnificant that, pes, the whole
Dr
ture120,000 forget to add that very doabtful: quality
and to put in its place a coalition with the sympathy of a considerable Government under, either General section of the South African Party. opposition is likely to come from the enormous lose
Nationalist Smuts or Mr. Roos. At one time. It has been agreed that the unitary the extrem this development seemed to be in principle is to be maintained, evitable, and the only doubt was with an extension whether General Hertzog, would re- decentralisation, and that a Commis- aign or would go to the country and slon shall be appointed to reconsider whether, whichever alternative, he the basis of prov selected, this would be before or falls very far sh defeated In the House. desires of Natal, after bein He decided in th
of meeting
erd revival of
estimates of the specialiste, still being kept in jail.
have been den Rre Age atis-have been precisely
agricul- The same holds true In
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