RUSSIAN JEWEL HOARD
OVER £250,000 VALUE OWNERS LIVE IN POVERTY (Independent Cable Service.) (Reed. Dec. 24, 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, Dec. 23. The journal IPravda features the disclosure of the arrest of two workers, members of a co-operative group, who, with their mothers, were found to have been concealing over £250,000 worth of gems since the revolution. The wjomen are the widows of wealthy Uzbekisithan khans. They were forced to live most frugally for 21 years, despite the hoarded fortune, because it was impossible to dispose of the gems without revealing their guilt, as such possession is against the law.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 5
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