Paris, July 23, The famous Russian opera-star, Chaliapin, has scored in his lawsuit against the Soviet trade delegation for Frs. 2,000,000 damages because he delegation, sold to a French house all rights which Chaliapin wrote still Russia and left with friends. The volume was confiscated by the Soviet authorities who disposed of through the Paris trade delegation. The counsel for the Intter pleaded before the civil court that Chaliapin's suit should be dismissed since the trade delegation enjoyed extraterritorial rights and, therefore, was not subject to French Jurisdiction while Chaliapin's counsel insisted that the privileges of the delegation did not cover such cases as the present one. The court decided accordingly and the ease was entered on the calendar to, be dealt with at an early date—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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