(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Lazar Benczin, Soviet trade representative in Austria, died of heart failure this morning. He was thirty-five years old.
Benczin, who was regarded as one of the brilliant trade experts in the Soviet service, was entrusted with important commercial missions. He was a native of Southern Russia.
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