RANSOMS REDUCED
£SO Now Will Free Alien* Who are Imprisoned. RIGA, December 8. The Soviet has further facilitated the “ ransoming ” by foreigners of their friends imprisoned in Russia. The amount of “ ransom ” has been reduced from £IOO to £SO in foreign currency, plus railway fares out of the country. The O.G.P.U. (Soviet Secret Police) have . long exercised this practice as an important means of obtaining foreign currency.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 1
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67RANSOMS REDUCED Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 1
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