SENSATIONAL STORY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 April 1928, Page 5

SENSATIONAL STORY

DAYS OF PIRACY RECALLED

A MILLION OF GOLD

ALLEGED TRANSFER IN MID CHANNEL

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LONDON. 14th April

A slory of fho transhipment of a mil bun pounds of gold in mid channel ;il midnight re%(te like an old-time incident of smuggling and piracy. The Soviet Government shipped ingots valued at £1,049.000 to America. A French bank claimed the money on the ground that it, was the same gold it deposited in the Russian State. Rank during 1915-17.

The French Government obtained an injunction in the American courts preventing the money being landed there. and the gold was rcshipped to Bremen by tho Nord-Doulcher steamer Dresden, duo to call at Cherbourg, whore it was expected the French authorities would seize, the gold.

Russians chartered a steamer and awaited the Dresden six miles off Falmouth, outside territorial waters. They wirelessed the plan of campaign to the Dresden, and went alongside shortly al' tei midnight.

The money was transhipped without hitch, and with the utmost speed, and the Russian steamer thou steamed off to an unknown destination.

STORY DENIED

RV DRESDEN'S CAPTAIN

LONDON. 14th April

Tho '•Sunday Express" Paris correspondent- says the Dresden cabled Cherbourg, "Ship now going to Bremen; gold intact.'* The captain laughed uproariously at the slory of the alleged transhipment of Soviet, gold in mid-chan-nel. He said : ''The gold is part of my cargo and I would not allow the French authorities or anyone else to remove it. I shall only relinquish responsibility therefor when it is handed over to the consignee at Bremen."