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TSAR'S GOLD MISSING
Belgrade.
were
TREASURES, said to have been valued originally at £32,000,000, which 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 how re-1 maina.
This was revealed at a specini court in Belgrade yesterday when two emigre 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-ive of them smartly dressed Russlan worch- were also accused, but they were acquitted.
Minor Figures Only
Gendzel, the embezzler, was sent
to prihon for four years;
Kuashinski,
his becomplice, for two years.
But they are only minor figures in the greatest financial mystery of post-war
mystery thot suggests wholesale embezzlement and thefts.
You'
HOW THE MONEY
IS SPENT
Air Minister Kingsley Sir
Wood took the Chancellor
Di
the Exchequer
ta
an R.A.F.
station to shoo
him how the
money devoted
to
the
Force la spent, They
chatted
(right) with the pilots, inspect- cd. aeroplanes and administra- quarters, expressed satisfaction with
and
the tion.
In the words of
tive their defending lawyer: "This case is in dunger of developing into a monster process, involving the international relations of Jugoslavin, beside which the minor misappropriations of Gendzel and Kunshinski are Insignificant.
The trial was secret. Not a word was allowed to appear in the Press.
But from a confidential document is able to reconstruct the alory of the treasure.
Chosts of Gold
It consisted of gold and silver de- posity from 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 1320) during the Kerensky regime, it was placed on the steainer Samara and Janded at Kotor, Jugoslovin.
Thirty-two waggons were needed to carry the treasure in Belgrade. There were 25,000 boxes and packets, Including 700 chests of silver, and 500 of gold and jewellery.
Some of the silver, worth £110.- 000, was brought to London and sold by the late General Wrangel.
Soviet Ploas
According to the document, the Soviet Government have already Rade representations to Jugoslavia for the return of this wenlil, 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
organisa-
TOO BUSY TO BE ILL
Tilled Pinture Bambiente, Tar
DEAD vysá
The view is expressed by an official)
Gendzel and Kuashinski suggests of the British Medical Association that the Jugoslav Government now fear the relations with the Soviet that people had been "too busy to be " since the war started. He was may be badly strained.
discussing the dwindling practices of many general practitioners.
"Apart froin their panel work, which is continuing more or less as
The Queen To Make usual, because, gonernilly speaking,
Bandages
the insured people are remaining in their ordinary jobs, the average general practitioner has not nearly as much work to do now as he has in normal times," said this official.
The Queen, who has returned to Scotland, Has organised a work party
"His practice has been very, badly to make bandages and garments for the Central Hospital Supplies Service it, partly because of the evacuation of large numbers of his privata under the joint board of the British patients, and partly because, owing to Red, Cross Society, and the Order emergency conditions, people simply of St. John.
have not time to be ill to-day. Nor Sho will herself take an active part face 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 "avacuated" to their own homes at Birmingham, Newcastle and Carlow (Eire).
They were brought before the Caxton Hall juvanile court
as being in need of care and protection,
November 20, 1939.
Bushmiller
MUMBLE... MUMBLE-- MUMBLE--
NAZI PLANE PUT THROUGH IT'S PACES
FOUND TOO SLOW
Returns To Be Interned
Voluntary Gosture By
British Pilot
LONDON, Nov. 10 (Reuter).~A British airman, accompanied by his wife, hos voluntarily returned to Iceland to be interned for the durn- tion of the war.
It will be recalled that he brought down his flying boat in feclandle, waters In September, and subsequent-" ly look off and returned to England under the impression that he had given no pledge to remain.
When he card of the misunder-i |standing, he immediately volunteered
to return.
He will be interned in a former palace which is now a modern form. Aviator Escapos. SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGNAPH" BRUSSELS, Nov. 10 (UP3),—It is reliably reported that a French avla- tor who was interned somewhere in Belgium at the beginning of the war, when he made an erroneous landing, has succeeded in escaping to France,
Japan Baseball Champions To Visit Manila TOKYO, Nov. 20 (Doinel)Bring
ALLIED air technicians now have complete proof of Nomura,
the inferiority of Germany's fighting planes.
Britain, Australia, France to Ignore League During War
GENEVA.
BRITAIN, France and A03- tralia, in separate notes 'La fis League of Nations, sald the special clause in the World Court statute which calls for compulsory arbi- tration in any conflict, which they signed with 35 other nations, no longer was valid so far as their war with Germany was concern-
ců.
The British note sald:
"All present machinery
to
up.
maintain peace a broken The conditions under which the British Government agreed to
sign the optional aritele of the World Court's statute no longer exlat,"
Australian
The French and notes were similar.
British troops driving Bren gun carriers through a French villaga "behind the lines."
Agonising
Pain
Stomach
2
IT'S acid that causes those terrible stomach patas-corrosive, ulcerating excess acid which burns the delicate lining of the stomach and turns your food into a fermenting, indigestiblo masa, The only way to get rullof is to nentraliao the excess stomach acid. Just take one dose of Bisurated Magnesla -- and the job's donel "Ekstrated" Kagnesia neutrál. ises excess acld in an instant. It spreada n soothing, protective film over the inflamed stomach lining, checks ulceration, and
•quickly restores normal digestion. That's
You want
ing the goodwill messages of the For eign Minister, Admiral Kichisaburo 6
and Mayor Keikichl Tanomag of Tokyo, 10 players of the Tokyo Giants, holders of the pro- fessional baseball championship In Test pilots have flown a cap- Japan, are shortly leaving Japan for tured Messerschmitt fighter, andthe Philippines to participate in the their reports show that the Philippine sports carnival. plane is actually slower than
of many
Britain's bombing planes,
squat
Yet the Messerschmitt-n little single-sent monoplane with square-cut wing tips-was one of Ier's most vaunted weapons.
I revented fast week that captured German pilots referred to their planes as "flying bricks," and com- plained that they were difficult to manoeuvre, in combat, says a London reporter.
+
A German fighter pilot landed his machine in France on one of the Allied aerodromes, under the im pression that he was in Germany.
WINGS FLAP
In tests with the machine at cer- tain speeds the short, metal wings Dap and quickly-an essential in nic Aghting.
The maximum safe speed for the machine is reported to be lower than 300 miles un hour, and at the speed the whole aircraft is vibrating dan- gerously and rattling.
Britain's warplanes are fitted with engines designed to use the most eficient fuel possible.
The engine of the Messerschmitt, however, is designed to work on a petrol little more potent than that used in a high-efciency sports car.
SMALL" LOSSES
According to German propagando 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 lights with ridiculously small losses.
The reports on the captured fighter seem to give the explanation,
Timing Their German Parent Ships to
Visitors
BRUSSELS. BELGIANS aro being
dis. couraged by the Nazl 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 frontier guard,
The reason for this Ughtening of the regulations is beiloved to be the growing discontent among Us German population.
The Nazis fear that through contact with their Belglan, friends people may get to know too much.
Letters have been received in Europe from Germans appealing to teir friends to bring them butter, coffee and chocolate,
Supply Raiders at Sea
By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT | marine depot ships. One of these, the AN effective point made by at Klei last May, and may not yet Valdemar Kophamel, was launched the Prime Minister in his latest be service; but all the others are statement on the progress of the belleved to be in commissten. Whe- war was that, previous to the ther any of them are now at sca outbreak of war, the Germans remains to be seen. had placed their U-boats and their supply ships, in the best strategic positions, with the re- sult that our shipping losses had been somewhat severo...
Apart from the question of the existence of parent vessels, it is cer- far away at sen indefinitely unless tain that the U-boats cannot remain they can have re-course to baren of somo kind. In this connection it This is the first information to be of Information
may be significant that the Ministry
have should published to suggest that enemy sub nounced last week that "the enemy marines operating the Atlantie are may attempt to establish submarine being assisted by supply ships. It bases on the coast of South and draws attention to the fact that no Central American countries." fewer than ten vessels figure in the list of the German Flcot as sub-
B. B. C.'s "ADOLF IN BLUNDERLAND"
|
IN THE LAST WAR
on-
In 1014-15 there were at least three denile Instances of this kind of disregard of neutrality by Ger- many, In September, 1914, the British cruiser Highflyer surprised and Bank the German armed liner Kaiser, Wilhelm, der Grosse while conling in the Spanish waters of Rio- de Oro, on the West African coast.
During the same month another enemy raider, the Cap Trafalgar, was similarly caught and destroyed by the armed Cunarder Carmania,, off the Brazilian island of Trinidada, in the South Atlantic.
After the battle of the Folklanda the surviving German cruiser, the Vontibbet blows his own trumpet.
Then follows airial in which Dresden, ropeatedly took advantage of Chilean neutrality, first by hiding The trial concerjia Guineapig, who in various remote inlets in the ter dared to voice the feelings of Blun-ritory of Magallenes and later by derland's suppressed wives and lying of the island of Juan Ferman- mothers, but Baig (54)
doz, where she was found and her The Queen orders; "Of with their career ended by the cruisers Glasgow, swastikas?"
and Kont,
London. There is a tea party with the Mad To the Birmingham girl, who had her home three weeks ago with her THE British Broadcasting Corpora- Flatterer, at which Stole gardener been found in a distressed condition parents' consent to come to London tion's stocks have been revived are busy painting white flowers red, In Hyde Park, the chairman (Mr. A. to look for work.
by a brilliant parody entitled "Adolf "in order to please Russia.” – E. Licek, said: "London is no place Later, sald a policeman, she" ad- in Blunderland.”·
The party attendants include the for a girl, especially, now, You mitled leaving home without permis-
of Heartieners, Storm know what the present atale of alon, and sald that she bought for White Venribbet to its hole, pets Troopers with club and spades,
In this Little Adolf follows the Queen affairs is. There is a possibility of 24, 6d. the half of a return ticket tost in a pool of his bum tears, and party leaders wearing their dia- London being an unpleasant and from Newcastle to London. dangerous place. You had better go This is not the time for girls like meets Catumbrella, cho, sitting on ands, also weeping Mockboebbels,
a mushroom and mimicking Cham back to Birmingham."
you to be adrift in London," said the bariain's voice, gives him good ad- The giri promised not to return to chairman. "We will get you back to vice from under his umbrella.
your mother to-day and place you under the supervision of the New- Adolfs head acts bigger and castle' probation officer."
bigger, and when he starts edting The mother of the Irish girl agreed the mushroom he grows too big to take her back to Ireland.
for his boots.-
London.
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