RUSSIAN MONEY.
[ VAST SUM MISSING. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, Feb. 2. The Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury has admitted that since the fall of the Kerensky Government in Russia, and the assumption of control by the Bolsheviks, _ Ambassador Bakhmetieff, representative fin Washington of the Czarist and, later, of the Kerensky Government, withdrew 59,000,C00 dois. from the United States Treasury, this sum being provided as a Russian credit, by tho Liberty Loan Acts, as a war measure. The manner in which Bakhmetieff utilised the money has not been revealed. The matter threatens to become a scandal. . »
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17062, 5 February 1921, Page 9
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