SENSATIONAL TRIAL
FORGED RUSSIAN NOTES
CHARGED IN BERLIN
lUuiicii Cress Assuuutiou —By Bli-ano 'ieiegiape Copyright.; LONDON, Jan. 6. The most 1 sensational political trial since the war will open in Benin today, states the Berlin correspondent of l the “Daily News. ’ Tnose implicated allegedly iorged Kussi an 'lcbervonetz notes, equivalent to £1 with the object of mining Soviet currency . International petroleum magnates fighting the Soviet for possession of the Baku oilfields financed a counter-revolu-tionary movement in Georgia, .to which movement leading Bavarian politicians arc also believed to have contributed. Neither industrialists nor politicians wore aware »of the extensive forgeries simultaneously carried out at Munich m order to add to the Georgian funds. The Georgian patriot Karumidze is the chief accused.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 7 January 1930, Page 5
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120SENSATIONAL TRIAL Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 7 January 1930, Page 5
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