COMMUNIST BANK
THE FUNDS MISSING
United Press Association— By Electric • Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 10
The “Mail’s” Paris correspondent states deposits amounting to two hundred thousand sterling, the savings of ‘ hardworking but gullible people, influenced by -Communist propaganda,jire reported to be missing from the Workers and Peasants Bank, an institution founded in Paris by Bolshevist leaders, ostensibly to prevent workers being fleeced by capita lis i bankers.
A Magistrate and accountants escorted by 150 police visited the / remises with the manager and bund only £5-10 sterling in cash. The bank is charged with breaches the law. Many deposits enteral in the name of the Communist leader, are alleged to be fictitious.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1929, Page 5
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