GERMAN GOLD LEAKAGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14044, 29 April 1920, Page 8

GERMAN GOLD LEAKAGE.

TJio Berlin police succeeded in pre | venting the removal ol a , onsiderable •sum in geld and silver hum Germany one evening ;., February, when th-p'y arrested six men at a-railway station as wore boaidnig a \train for ioiand x The men v.vio requested to go to the waiting - room. where they were searched. Cold and silver corns wore fount! sewn in tlioir uuderdothin" a nd in specially constructed belU. -'l'he-ISJ-o , " >,, . ,l " sted ,, ol 136,8fia "-"marks V^ S i9> . m . K° ,fl :lncl 53.000 mark* .( L2btM) in silver. This capture is the outcome of a series 'of raids among Galiciaiis and J oles who infest the Gronadiorstrasso a street in which one liardlv realises that one is still m Berlin. 'N O traffi( , passe., down the street, the roadwayand pavement are crowded with bearded and swarthy Jews, in high-peaked caps and OiientaJ_jj;abard)nes. Shops, cales, and small hotels advertise themselves by Hebrew "signs. Knots form au every few yards, haggling for bargams of every description. - The chief trade of the" Grenadierstrasse, however, is .the traffic in money. One follows a string of slews entering a shop, apparently a -bookmaker's, and, parsing through the shop, enters a hack room, .where, a couple of hundred men are crowded 'together. -Strangers are eved frith suspicion and -accosted with'the question, What do you want-to buy?" br with

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