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TSAR'S GOLD MISSING
Belgrade.
TREASURES, said to have been valued originally * 'at • £32,000,000, which were smuggled out of Tsarist Russia before the revolution, are missing from the vaults of Jugoslavia's Finance Ministry, where they were placed for safety.
Barely £1,000,000 now mains.
re-
This was revealed at a special court in Belgrade yesterday when
two emigro Russians, Anton Gendzel and Leo Kuns hinski, were sentenced for em- bezzling and disposing of part of the treasure, worth £2,000.
Six other people-five of them smartly dressed Russian women- were also accused, but they were aequalited.
Minor Figuros Only
Gendzel, the embezzler, was sent to prison for four years: Kunshinski, his accompilce, for two years.
But they are only minor figures in the greatest financial mystery of post-war years-a mysicry that suggests wholesale embezzlement and thells.
In the words of their defending lawyer: "This case is in danger of developing into a monster process, Involving the international relations of Jugoslavia, beside which the minor misappropriations of Gendzel and Kuushinski are insignificant.
The trial was secret. Not a word was allowed to appear in the Press.
But from a confidential document; it is able to reconstruct thic story of the treasure.
Chests of Gold
It consisted of gold and silver-de- poslis Croni the former Russian National Bank, valuable collections of old coins from Moscow and Petro- grad Museums, and private bank safe) deposits.
Smuggled out of Russia in 1920| during the Kerensky regime, it was] placed on the steamer Samara and funded at Kotor, Jugoslavia.
Thirty-two waggons were needed! to carry the treasure-la-Belgrade” There were 25,000 boxes and packels, including 700 chests of silver, and 580 of gold and Jewellery,
Some of the silver, worth £110- 000, was brought to Landon and sökd by the late General Wrangel. Soviot Pleas
According to the document, the Soviet Government have already) made representations to Jugoslavin for the return of this wealth, or such part of it as was originally the pro- perty of the State and municipal and public Institutions In Russia.
The hushing-up of the trial of Gendzel and Kunalinski
suggests
HOW THE MONEY IS SPENT
Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood took The Chancellor
us
the Exchequer to ать R.A.M station to show him how the money devoted
to the Air Force 18 They (right) with the pilots, inspect- cd acroplanes and administra- tive quarters, and expressed satisfaction with the organisa- tion.
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The view is expressed by an official of the British Medical Association
that the Jugoslav Government now that people had been "too busy to be fear the relations. with the Soviet since the war started. He was
Inny be badly strained.
discussing the dwindling practices of many general practitioners.
"Aport from their punel work, which is continuing more or less us
The Queen To Make usual, because, generally speaking,
Bandages
The Queen, who has returned to Scotland, has organised a work party
pverage
the insured people are remaining in their ordinary jobs, the general practitioner has not nearly s much work to do now as he has in normal times," said this official.
to make bandages and garments for "LUS practice has been very badly the Central Hospital Supplies Servicet, partly because of the evacuation
of large numbers under the joint board of the British patients, and partly because, owing to of his private Red, Cross Society, and the Order of St. John,
emergency conditions, people simply have, not time to be ill 10-day, Nor She will herself take an active part are they bothering to call the doctor in the work, and will be assisted by jin for the treatment of minor all- members of the domestic staff of the ments as they would do in normal royal household.
times."
Runaway Girls
Warned of
Dangerous London
THREE, runaway girls who had been found in London by police-women are to be "evacuated" to their own homes at Birmingham, Nowenstle and Carlow (Eire).
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They were brought before the Caxton Hall juvanile court sa being in need of care and protection.
To the Birmingham girl, who had, her home three weeks ago with her been found in a distressed condition parents consent to come to London In Hyde Park, the chaltman (Mr. A. to look for work.
November 20, 1939,
Bushmiller
MUMBLE... .MUMBLE-- MUMBLE..
NAZI PLANE PUT THROUGH
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FOUND TOO SLOW
Britain-Japan
AMERICA BLAMED
Tientaln, Nov. 18. Interviewed by the foreign Press
thle
morning General Homme, Japanese Comander-in-Chief here. declared that the Tientsin blockade will continue until a satisfactory solution of pending questions 15 achieved, Ho added that the blockade should have ended. three months ngo, when the Anglo- Japanese negotiations were prosced- ing amoothly, but the abrogation of the commercial treaty with Japan by America caused n stiffening of the British attitude.
was
General Homma
asked whether the Japanese military au- thorities would abide by the decisions reached by the diplomatic talks in Tokyo. He, smilingly replied that as soldiers they would obey orders.
the
General Homma regretted that nationals other then Britoru suffering hardships through blockade, but every step was being taken to reduce their inconvenience. --Reuter.
gonising
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According to the United Press General Homma also sinted that Anglo-Japanese consular oficiais
were
negotiating regarding the shortage of coal in Tientsin. The above statement has been confirmed; by the British Consul-General.
Search Not Relaxed
Chungking. Nov. ID.
In Tientsin pedestrians may enter
ALLIED air technicians now have complete proof of leave the Concessions only at
the inferiority of Germany's fighting planes.
|Britain, Australia, France to Ignore League During War GENEVA,
BRITAIN, France and Aus- Iraila, in separate roles to im League of Nations, sald the special elause in the World Court statule which calls for compulsory arbl- tration in any confilet, which they signed with 35 other nations. no longer was valid so far as their war with Germany was concern.
ed
The British note said: "AIL present machinery 10 maintain peace has broken up. The conditions under wblch the British Government agreed sign the optional article of the World Court's statute no longer exist."
Test pilots have flown a cap- tured Messerschmitt fightor, and their reports show that the plane is actually slower than many of Britain's bombing planes.
Yet the Messerschmitt-u squat little single-seat monoplane with square-cut wing tips--was one of Hitler's most vaunted weapons.
I revealed last week that captured German pilots referred to their planes as "ying bricks," and com- plained that they were difficult to manoeuvre in combat, says a London reporter.
A German Bghter pilot landed his machine in France to
on one of the Allied aerodromes, under the Im- pression that he was in Germany,
The French And Australian notes were similar.
British troops driving Bren gun carriers through a French village "behind the lines."
Timing Their Visitors
BRUSSELS. BELGIANS Arc belug ds- couraged by the Nazi authorities to visit friends or relatives in Germany
Only people with special passes are allowed to cross, and these are being clocked" in and out by the German frontler guard.
The reason for this: ightening of the regulations is believed to be the growing discontent among the German population.
The Nazis fear that through contact with their Belgian friends people mAY ret to know too much,
Leiters have been received in Europe from Germans appealing to flier friends to bring them butler, coffee and chocolate.
WINGS FLAP
In tests with the machine at cer- tain speeds the short metal wings Alap and quickly-an essential in ar Sghting.
The maximum safe speed for the machine is reported to be lower than 300 miles an hour, and at the speed the whole aircraft is vibrating dan-
erously and rattiinų.
Britain's warplanes are fitted with engines designed to use the most eficient fuel possible.
The cagine of the Messerschmitt, however, is designed to work on a petrol little more potent than that ired in a high-efficiency sports car.
SMALL-LOSSES
According to German propaganda before the war, the Messerschmitt was going to keep the air over Ger- many clear of invaders.
British and French craft have now flown millions of miles over enemy territory on reconnaissance flights with ridiculously small losses.
The reports on the captured Oghter seem to give the explanation.
German Parent Ships to Supply Raiders at Sea
By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT marine depot ships. One of these, the Valdemor Kophiamel, was launched AN effective point made by the Prime Minister in his latest be
at Kiel Inst May, and may not yet service; but all the others are statement on the progress of the believed to be in commission. Who- war was that, previous to the ther any them are now at sen patbreak of war, the Germans remains to be seen. had placed their U-boats and. Apart from the question of the strategic positions, with the re- far away at sen. indefinitely unless their supply ships in the beat existence of parent vessels, it is cer- tain that the U-boats cannot remain ault that our shipping losses had they can have re-course to bases of been somewhat severe.
zomo klad, In this connection It This is the first information to be of information should
may be significant that the Ministry published to suggest that enemy sub-nounced last week that "the enemy
have marines operating in the Atlantic are may attempt to establish submarine being assisted by subply ships. It bases on the draws attention to the fact that no Central American countries."
coasts of South and fewer than ten vessels figure in the list of the German Flect as sub-
B. B. C.'s “ADOLF IN BLUNDERLAND"
London,
There is a tea party with the Mad
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IN THE LAST WAR
In 1914-15
there were at least three definite instances of this kind of disregard of neutrality by Ger- blany.
In September, 1914, the British cruiser Highflyer surprised and sank the German armed liner Knizer Wilhelm der Grosse while cooling in the Spanish waters of Ro de Oro, on the West African coast. THE British Broadcasting Corpora- Flatterer, at thick State gardeners enemy raider, the Cap Trafalgar, was During the same month another Lion's stocks have been ravived are busy painting white flowers red, similarly caught and destroyed by the by a brillant, parody entitled "Adolf "hi order to please Russia,” E. Licck, anid: "London is no place
armed Cunarder Carmania of the Later, said a policeman, shỏ ad- in Blunderland.”
The party attendants include the Brazilian Island of Trinidada, in the for a girl especially now. You mitted leaving home without permis-
of Heartlessness, know what the present stale
Storm South Atlantic. In "this, Little Adolf follows the Queen of alon, and said that she bought for White Vonribbet to its hole gate Troopers with clubs and spades, stairs is. There is a possibility of 2s. 6d. the half of n return liekat toss in a pool of his, din tear, and party leaders wearing their dia" London being an unpleasant...and from Newcastle to London,
After the battle of the Falklands dangerous place. You had belter go】
mecie Catumbrella, who, sitting on
monda, also teeping Mockboobbels. the surviving German cruiser, the "This is not the time for girls like a mushroom, and mimicking Cum Then folidus a trial in which Drawing, reventedly took advantage back to Birmingham.”
you The gli promised not to return to chairman. We will get you brick to vice from under his umbrella,
to be adrift in London," said the uerlain's spice, glues in good ad Vanribber blows his own trumpet. of Chilean neutrality, frat by hiding
The trial concerns Guineapio, who in various remote inlets in the ter To your mother, to-day and place you
dared to voice the feelings of Blun- ritory of Magalienes and Inter by under the aupervialon of the New
deiland's suppressed wives and lying at the island of Juan Ferman- caalle probation officer."
mathers,
lez where she was found and her CHỌN with their career ended by the cruisers Glasgow
And Kent.
London.
FROM NEWCASTLE FOR 26, 5d. The Newcastle girl, aged 10, witen found in the West End, said she left
The mother of the Irish girl'agreed to take her back to Ireland,
'Adolf's "head" "gets bloger and bigger, and when he starts eating the mushroom The grows too big The Quren orders; 3 for his boota ***
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