ITALY’S GOLD RESERVES
TRANSFERRED TO GERMANY (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 9. Italy’s remaining gold reserves were sent to Germany from Milan last night says the British United Press correspondent on. the Italian frontier. The gold was carried in a heavily-guarded train consisting of 14 cars. Fascist militiamen helped German soldiers to store the bullion and gold coins into barrels weighing 136 tons, which were transported to the station in 40 lorries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25456, 10 February 1944, Page 5
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