Gang of 17 Armed Robbers Taken by French On December 31, when in Moscow the hands of the Kremlin clock pointed 5 p.m.. New Year had already begun in Vladivostok to the strains of music.
Toilers of Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk and other towns of the Great Soviet Country met the New Year in clubs, homes, schools, universities with mass festivities and merriment A complete gang of seventeen dangerous gangsters and ther women were arrested during a series of swift raids on Sunday night and early yesterday morning by the French Police, in ce-operation with the Settlement Police. The successful completion of the raids Hat its foundation in the arrest early in the evening, at the Mei Mei Hotel in Rue Wagner, of one man and his mistress, This arrest was followed, about 2 a.m, yesterday, by the capture of another suspect and three women at 507 Medhurst Road. An hour dater four men and a woman were taken in a room on the first floor of 116-Datung Road. At the moment of the arrest one of the suspects threw a valise from the window. In it were found three Mauser pistol: and ammunition.
Later, about six o'clock, two more suspects were taken at 290 Datung Road, with a Mauser pistol, Ta all, seventeen suspects, seven automatic els and three sub-machine-guns, ith 125 cartridges and a large quantity of jewell were taken in the night's is.
Still another successful arrest was made in Rue Buissonnet on Sunday evening, when two individuals, with, one Mauser pistol and twenty cartridges were apprehended. They declared they were attempting to sell their weapon.
"Pravda".writes: 1938 will be the year of further rise of the nationa economy, the year of the ma: growth of productivity of labour throughout the whole USSR. of further unprecedented growth of culture and material welfare of toilers, the year of new wonderful feats of ihe Soviet people, the year of still greater strengthening of the defensive power of the Great Soviet Union.
"We are certain of our future victories, "Pravda" concludes. because the Party of Lenin—Stalin heads the peoples of the U.S.S.R,"—Tass.
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