FORTUNE IN GEMS
ENFORCED CONCEALMENT RUSSIAN WORKERS ARRESTED - ' MOSCOW, Dec. 23 The official Soviet organ, Pravda, features the disclosure of the arrest of two workers, members of the co-opera-tive movement at Tashkent, who, with their mothers, were found to have concealed more than £250,000 worth of gems since the revolution. The women are widows of wealthy Uzbekistan Khans. They were forced to live most frugally for 21 years, in spite of the concealed gems, because it was impossible to dispose of them without revealing their guilt, as the possession of jewels is against the law.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23230, 27 December 1938, Page 10
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