GENERAL CABLES.
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CHARGE AGAINST OFFICER. STOCKHOLM, Deo. 5. A Swedish lieutenant engaged on coast defence was arrested on a charge of betraying secrets to the Soviet military attache, AL Pauloras. COMMUNISTS’ ACHIEVEMENT. LONDON, Dec. 6. The “ Times’s “ correspondent at Riga reports that Communist leaders hail the decline of prosperity• of private traders as one of their chief victories on the home front. All the speakers at the Communist Congress empalisised the decline as a great achievement, Stalin declaring that traders and Vodka were necessary evils, useful for oiling financial machinery, the A'odka monopoly producing 50 millions sterling per annum. He hoped for an increase of three hundred per cent, in consumption, to improved distribution. Alikoyan, Commissar of Trade, pointed out that the total private trade had declined 19 per cent in 1927, and wholesale trade 22 per cent., owing to special taxation, withdrawal of credit, and stricter control. These facts ve.e paraded before the Congress in refutation to the Opposition’s accusation that Stalinites were unduly sympathetic towards the bourgeoisie.. :
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1927, Page 2
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172GENERAL CABLES. Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1927, Page 2
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