RUSSIAN TRIAL.
REPORTER TAKEN - INTO CUSTODY GIRL EMPLOYED BY NEW YORK TIMES. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright; eceived Monday, 8.35 p.m. LONDON, March 21.
Valentina Smegirevskaya, the 20-year-old secretary of the Moscow office of the New York Times, has been arrested by the Ogpu as the most recent of a series of arrests of Russian employees of the American Embassy, says the Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. American newspapers and competent authorities specially authorised her to take notes of the recent trials on behalf of British and American correspondents. Nevertheless, she was taken into custody four days before the trial ended.
Other arrests include women secretaries at the American Chamber of Commerce and International News Service and the legal adviser to the American Embassy. 132,000 RUSSIANS CHARGED. WITH THEFT Received Monday, 8.35 p.m. LONDON, March 21. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the newspaper Pravda announces that 132,000 employees of State trading organisations have been charged with theft and embezzlement in connection with wreckingactivities, New officials have been placed in control of State trading, but no improvement can be detected in out put.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 1938, Page 5
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