COMPENSATION GRANTED.
CASE OF MR LUXEMBUKG. Received March 3, 9 a.m. LONDON, March 2. The Russian Government has granted Mr Luxemburg 5,000 roubles as compensation for his arrest at Odessa. Nicholas Luxemburg, a naturalised British subject, and boot manufacturers' agent in London, was arrested at the end of March of last year, as a political suspect, and detained for a fortnight in a filthy prison. He appealed to the British Consul at Odessa, and was released, but the authorities retained one-third of his money. He claimed £IO,OOO for false imprisonmnent. In January (according to a cablegram) the Czar granted £7,000 as compensation to Luxemburg.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3129, 4 March 1909, Page 5
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104COMPENSATION GRANTED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3129, 4 March 1909, Page 5
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