WORK OF WRECKERS
SILKWORM INDUSTRY THREATENED DISCOVERY IN ARMENIA LONDON, May 30. (Received May 30, at 7.30 p.m.) The Moscow correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that a report from Erivan, capital of Armenia, describes how wreckers, at the instigation of local Nationalists and Japanese and Italian intelligence officers, tried to blight the silkworm industry by destroying 600,000 mulberry trees. Raw silk infected by parasites was shipped throughout the country, causing damage to the extent of millions of roubles and breaking up State silkworm farms. M. Kamoyev, head of the Silk Trust, was sentenced to death, and his assistant, Helena Markalyan, and a farm manager, Sarkisyan, were each sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 11
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