RAID BY FRENCH POLICE
Soviet Documents Seized
Demand for Return Refused
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright
(Received February 9, G. 39 p.m.) PARIS, February 8.
Documents seized at the Soviet trade offices reveal operations far beyon ’ the scope of a trade mission’s functions, also close collaboration with German and Russian propagandists. Plain clothes men entered the offices at 9 a.m. and forced the safes with files. They met officials arriving and escorted them to their homes, which were searched. The Government refused a Soviet demand for the return of the documents and declared that the office ceased to enjoy immunity when tke Franco-Soviet trade agreement had lapsed. The raid was part of the operations against Communists throughout France.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 9
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118RAID BY FRENCH POLICE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 9
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