SOVIET SUSPICIOUS
SEAMEN’S MAIL OPENED BRITISH MASTER PINED VANCOUVER, Oct. 10. Seamen on ships which have visited Black Sea ports and Vladivostok state that Soviet Russia continues to put up an ever improving “front” for visiting seamen and tourists. Nevertheless, all mail destined for crews of ships bound for Russian ports is opened and read by the authorities, also all outgoing mail from seamen. One seaman stated here that lie knew of a British master who was given five days in the cells and fined 50C0 roubles on a charge of breaking a Soviet law three years previously. The captain’s offence was that lie gave some bread crusts and other food discards of the galley to one of the Soviet working women on the waterfront. She was caught with the food and confessed where she had obtained it. Three years later, Soviet law overtook tho offender.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18550, 9 November 1934, Page 8
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