CHILD POLICE
HP ~ TRACKING GRAIN THIEVES. YOUNG COMMUNISTS IN RUSSIA^ FOUR THOUSAND IN CAUCASUS. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 12.5' p.m.) LONDON, August 8.
The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that thousands of children have been enrolled in agricultural areas as auxiliary police, to track down grain thieves and peoplo damaging crops. It is officially stated that 4000 young Communists are thus engaged in the North Caueusuis alone. A typical report in the journal of the Commissariat of Agriculture reads: A party of boys' and girls caught some women who were cutting oars of wheat with, scissors.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 256, 10 August 1933, Page 5
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