RUSSIAN FRAUDS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1928, Page 5

RUSSIAN FRAUDS.

TO OBTAIN NEEDED MONEY

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 2,

The “Daily Mail’’ states: Further revelations regarding Moscow’s attempt to obtain English money for socalled Russian concessions indicate a gigantic swindle with the object of establishing industries which, as in the past, can be stolen later. The Bolsheviks, on the excuse that . the museums are overcrowded, are endeavouring to raise funds by selling in London priceless art treasures which largely have been stolen from the palaces of Royalty and nobility, including sculptures of the eighteenth century, French furniture, Deauvais, Goveliiis and Aubusson tapestries, beddilamonded snuff boxes and valuable paintings. As the London dealers refuse tempting terms, the articles will be auctioned at Berlin in November. The paper “Isvestia” discloses a scheme to lure American tourists to Russia by the opening of the frontiers and the facilitating of travel, the building of de luxe hotels, and the selling to Americans of home-made antiques indistinguishable from genuine ones.