# TELEGRAM TO THE SIBERIAN PRODCOM

AND THE SEMIPALATINSK GUBSPRODCOM

By Radio

Omsk, Sibprodcom. Copy to Sibrevkom, copy to the Kirghiz Representation

Semipalatinsk, Gubprodcom, copy to Semipalatinsk, Gubposevkom

According to a personal communication from Balabolkin, a member of the Semipalatinsk Gubposevkom, the Semipalatinsk Gubprodcom has reserved up to 20,000 ricks of unthreshed grain in the Aul District. Review the matter, discussing it thoroughly: if the threshing of the grain is impossible without giving part of it to the peasants in the form of a loan or payment for threshing, if this loan will be used for sowing and the threshing of the rest of the food grain will be guaranteed, I authorise a partial departure from my order No. 410*, handing over part of the grain, by no means more than 300,000 poods, for seed while observing the specified conditions, however, bearing in mind first and foremost the catastrophic food situation in the workers’ centres and the capitals. Telegraph me immediately regarding the meas-

TELEGRAM TO ALL GUBISPOLKOMS, SIBREVKOM, ETC.

ures taken on the basis of this, copy to Narkomprod.

Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars Lenin