BELGIAN CROWN JEWELS
(Rec. 11.10). LONDON, Feb. 15. Cases of jewels, including the Crown jewels belonging to the Belgian Royal Family, lay in vaults in the local ,branch of the Bank of France in Beziers for four years, without its being suspected by the Germans, s?:y;s Reuter’s Paris correspondent. Two Belgian railway employees were stranded with the treasure when the German armies marched into Belgium, so they deposited the case in the bank, 1
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Grey River Argus, 16 February 1945, Page 4
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