SILVER COIN
RUSSIAN PRIEST RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE Prcsa Aitocixtion —By Telegraph—Copy right. MOSCOW, September 18. (Received September ID, at 10 a.m.) In connection with the silver hoarding campaign, a priest named Goozdeff was sentenced to death for hoarding £l7. Five nuns are awaiting trial on a similar charge. [A. message received last month stated:—Four men, who were described us most mischievous hoarders of silver coins, have been shot by orders of the secret police, while others have been imprisoned in a concentration camp for various terms. The official Press agency explains that the secret police discovered that the buying and hoarding of silver coins were mostly done by counter-revolutionaries, who wished to disorganise the development of socialistic reconstruction and undermine the credit of the Soviet monetary system.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20593, 19 September 1930, Page 9
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127SILVER COIN Evening Star, Issue 20593, 19 September 1930, Page 9
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