PRISONERS WORK FOR SOVIET
Keeeived Tuesdav, .0.50 p.m. SHANGHAI, Dec. 17. Pravda 's Irkutsk correspondent savs I nearly 000,000 prisoners of war in- j cluding 800,000 Japanese and about j 2,000,000 Germans, Italians, Hungariansj and Finns are working on the new railway line linking Europeau Russia with j Siberia. The western terminus will be situated on the left bank of the Volga and tlie eastern terminus will be at i Taishet 400 miles northwest of Lakei Baikal. The new line traverscs the heavy industry centres in the Ivutnetsk coal basin.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 December 1946, Page 6
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