RUSSIAN SENSATION
ALLEGED GRAFT CASES,
THE COUNTRY “-HONEYCOMBED.”
MOSCOW, September 17. Nine chief directors of the Soviet shipbuilding industry and a number of second rate officials are being tried on a charge of plotting to overthrow the Government by economic measures especially by reducing to absurdity every new enterprise. This is only one of the alleged graft trials with which Russia is honeycombed from Astrakhan, in the south, to Leningrad, in the north. A Soviet communique declares that the nine directors wasted £1,800,000 in the Leningrad shipyards including; the conversion of two Tsarist cruisers'into oil tankers, the vast expense of building timber ships, which promptly sank, and the ordering of materials abroad, when Russian supplies were superior. ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20834, 28 September 1929, Page 14
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