WORKERS’ BANK
BOLSHEVIST INSTITUTION IN PARIS funds missing. Pr«*s Association — By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 16. The Paris correspondent of tho ‘Daily Mail’ states that , deposits amounting to £200,000, the savings of hard-working but gullible people, who had been influenced by Communist propaganda, is reported as missing from the Workers and Feasants’ Bank, an institution founded in Paris by Bolshevist leaders ostensibly to prevent the workers being fleeced by capitalist bankers.
A magistrate and accountants, escorted by 150 police, visited the premises with the manager, and found only £540 in cash in the bank. Many of the depositors entered in tho names of Communist leaders are alleged to be fictitious.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20256, 17 August 1929, Page 15
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111WORKERS’ BANK Evening Star, Issue 20256, 17 August 1929, Page 15
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