Poles Smuggled 75 Tons Of Gold
(Rec. 1 p.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 3. Gold worth £23.437,500, was smuggled from Poland just before the fall of Warsaw, said an ex-Polish Cabinet Minister (M. Ignace Matuszewski) who has arrived from Lisbon. He and another Minister loaded 75 tons of gold on 15 lorries, on which they put dozens of refugees, women and children. The refugees diverted suspicion and they reached Rumania where the gold was shipped to Turkey and thence to Syria and the Polish Government's seat at Angers (France). When the Nazis invaded France the Polish gold was again moved, but he would not say where.
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Northern Advocate, 4 September 1941, Page 5
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