PEASANT CONGRESS
OPENED AT BERLIN. POLICE ARREST DELEGATES. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel.—Copyright. BERLIN, March 31. The first European peasant congress was opened at Berlin to-day. It is announced that this is an important tsep toward international co-operation. The police, however, are unsympathetic and have arrested 24 of the visiting delegates on the ground that they have no passports. The principal initiators of the- congress are stated by the police to be in close connection with the Soviet. I’hose arrested include 17 men described as Poles, four Czechs and two Russians. It is expected that they will be immediately expelled.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17984, 1 April 1930, Page 8
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