THROUGH GERMAN LINES
GOLD SMUGGLED ifcOM NORWAY 80,000,000 DOLLARS’ WORTH OF BULLION (Rec. 0.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Apl. 18. How 80,000,000 dollars’ worth of gold was smuggled from Norway through the German lines was related by Mr Frederick Ilaslund, who has arrived in America to attend to the welfare of Norwegian seamen. He said that when the King and the Government fled from Oslo he was assigned the task of getting to the coast 1539 cases of gold weighing 120.0001 bto enable British warships to take it north. Haslund said he hid while Norwegian forces fought the Germans, and played hide and seek with the gold among hundreds of coastal islands. Once when the Germans blocked the way Ilaslund’s party put the gold on a fishing boat and skirted the enemy. When the Germans took over Northern Norway the gold was taken to Scapa Flow. Half of it is now in the United States, and the other half in Canada.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25514, 19 April 1944, Page 5
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