PURGE IN RUSSIA
FAILURE OF A PLAN ARREST OF SEVERAL OFFICIALS ALLEGED TIIEFT OF £40,000 United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received May 9. 3 p.m.) MOSCOW, May g. M. Kagonovitch announced that the entire 1937 plan for chemical Industry has failed owing to wreckage. The director (Nakoliakov) and chief bookkeeper Garkonov) of the fiction department of the State Publishing House have been arrested on charges of embezzling £40,000, some of which was misappropriated and some advanced to authors for unwritten books. An army of tax collectors Is swooping on the villages throughout Russia to collect arrears of peasants’ taxes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20494, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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100PURGE IN RUSSIA Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20494, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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