RUSSIAN WRECKERS
CHEMICAL PLAN FAILS EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGES ARREST OF HIGH OFFICIALS MOSCOW, May 8 It has been announced' by M. Kagonovitch that the entire 1937 plan for th<? chemical industry had failed owing to -wreckage. The director, M. Nakoliakoff, and the chief book-keeper, M. Garkonoff, in the fiction department of the State publishing house, hare been arrested on charges of embezzling £40,000, some of which, it is alleged, was misappropriated and some advanced to authors for unwritten.books. An army of collectors is visiting villages throughout Russia to collect arrears of peasants' taxes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23033, 10 May 1938, Page 11
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