FATHER'S CRIME
BETRAYAL BY DAUGHTER SOVIET REWARD GAINED MOSCOW. March 28 A 12-year-old peasant girl has been awarded a pension of £'l4 ' a month, also free education at the best State school, as a reward for denouncing hej father to the Okpu for stealing erain on a collective farm in the Volga district,? The crime is punishable by death. The girl wrote to the police as follows: "I am not afraid of my father. I joined the Young Pioneers and learned that it was my duty to expose him. Now I have written this I feel better." The Young Pioneers organisation is the Russian equivalent of the Girl Guides.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 12
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109FATHER'S CRIME New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 12
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