Free Pardon for 55,000 Convicts
MOSCOW-VOLGA CANAL COMMEMORATION. United Association— Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copy rich t Received Friday, 10.5 p.m. MOSCOW, July 16. To commemorate the opening of the lew 80-mile Moscow-Volga canal, enibling ships to reach Moscow from tho Baltic, Caspian and White Seas, the j Soviet has granted a free pardon to 35,000 convicts who worked on the job J for five years. Trade unions have been )rdered to find them immediate employ - nent,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 168, 17 July 1937, Page 5
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