RUSSIAN JEWELS.
APPEARANCE IN FRANCE. POLICE MAKE A HAUL. (A. and N.Z. Cable.* PARIS, July 2b. Great quantities of Russian jewels are coming to France, Italy and Holland clandestinely. A Jewish pearl merchant recently came to Paris with a diplomatic valise belonging to a small State adjoining Russia, which thus escaped the Customs. An examination was made later when the police questioned the Jew, who refused to ojoen the valise, whereupon the police broke it open and found jewels worth 200,U00 francs, while precious stones valued at 1,500,000 francs were traced to a safe in a Paris bank, where the Jew had deposited them. Most of the jewels had been stolen frofm the proscribed Russian families and churches.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15887, 27 July 1923, Page 5
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118RUSSIAN JEWELS. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15887, 27 July 1923, Page 5
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