SOVIET ARRESTS
Former Head of Secret Police London, April 5. The arrest of M. Yagoda, Commissar of Transport, has created a greater sensation in 'Russia 'than the shooting of Zinoviev and Kamenev, says the correspondent of the Times at Riga. He was head of the secret police until September and appeared all powerful. The most hated man in Russia since the death of Dzerzhinsky in 1926, Yagoda was' feared even by high Communists. He organised the Ogpu’s notorious forced labour gangs several hundred thousand strong, composed of recalcitrant pea sanjts and intelligentsia, with Which he constructed the White Sea-Baltic Canal. Later he began the VolgaMoscow canal, for which he was given the title of commiss.ar-general.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 401, 7 April 1937, Page 5
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115SOVIET ARRESTS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 401, 7 April 1937, Page 5
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