PEASANT CONGRESS.
Berlin Police Arrest Visiting
Delegates.
CONNECTED WITH SOVIET ?
BEELIX, March 31.
The first European peasant congress was opened at Berlin to-day. It is announced that this is an important step toward international co-operation. The police, however, are unsympathetic and have arrested 24 of the visiting delegates on the ground that they have no passports-. The principal initiators of the congress are stated by the police to be in close connection with the Soviet. Those arrested include seventeen men described as Poles, four Czechs and two Eussians. It is they will be immediately expelled.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1930, Page 7
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