PROPERTY OF PRINCESS
.SOVIET SEIZURE,
ACTION AGAINST DISPOSAL
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.)) LONDON, November 20,
Princess Pa ley, widow of the Russian (Ivand Duhe Alexandroviteh, conlesied the right of the Soviet to confiscate or dispose of her property, in a King’s Bench action against a firm of French dealers, whose defence set out that the furniture, tapestries, carpets and pictures at present in England had legally boon appropriated by the Soviet in 11)18 and. subsequently purchased by the defendants.
The Princess’ counsel stated that the property undoubtedly belonged to the Princess, and came from her home in Rnssila, After the revolution her husband was imprisoned and eventually shot in 1919. The Princess left Russia soon afterwards.
Cross-examined, the Princess agreed that her husband did not give her any document showing that the property in Russia belonged to her. The case was adjourned.
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Northern Advocate, 28 November 1928, Page 5
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