SOVIET GRAND CANAL
EXCAVATION BY CONVFCTS
AMNESTY AS REWARD
(Received October 27, 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, October 26. j The Soviet's flair for grand scalo operations is revealed in tho inustesring of a hundred thousand convicts and political prisoners of both sexes to excavate an eighty-mile canal to connect tho River Volga with Moscow and enable tho largest ships to anchor almost iin sight of the Kremlin. The huge army of workers, housed in barracks, is not heavily guarded. Indeed, tho authorities explain that tho guards are there chiefly to prevent the pilferage of materials. Those unfortunates aro sustained in their long job by tho hope of a large-scale amnesty, as was the case when the White Sea canal was finished.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 7
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120SOVIET GRAND CANAL Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 7
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