A NEW KLONDYKE
IN NORTHERN SIBERIA. SOVIET MONOPOLY SET UP TWELVE THOUSAND MEN AT WORK. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Feb. 25, 11 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 24. The Daily News states that 12,000 semi-starved gold seekers are* feverishly working a new Klondyke on the banks of the river Ldan, in one of the remotest and wildest regions in NorthEastern Siberia, 300 miles from a railway. The Soviet estimates that there is a ton of gold to every 15 .square miles in a .total area of 6000 square miles. The Soviet has removed all Japanese and Koreans, and has decreed' that the fields must be worked exclusively by Russians, who are forced to sell their dust and nuggets to the Soviet for £3 16s an ounce. . . ■ Aeroplanes are conveying limited supplies of foodstuffs.—-Sydney Sun Cable".
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 February 1926, Page 5
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133A NEW KLONDYKE Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 February 1926, Page 5
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