SOVIET FAILURE.
TO BRIBE BRITAIN. GOLD SHIPPED BACK. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copy right. LONDON, Sunday. Guarded by armed Russian sailors, a consignment of Soviet gold for Russia, worth £1,600,000, left the Thames in a sealed hold aboard the steamship Soviet. The “Daily Mail” says that the shipment amounts to a confession that Russian gold has failed in its purpose of converting Britain. It was deposited with the Bank of England ostensibly as a security for trading credits. Russian officials' now - state that it is being returned to Russia as payment for grain imported from Russia, but trading- certainly has not been on such a scale. The Soviet in 1925 sent bullion worth £2,800,000, obtained by meltingvast quantities of jewellery and church plate. Little of it remains in London.—‘ ‘ Sun. ’ ’
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 January 1927, Page 5
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