understanding with the Russian Government for the transfer of 
gold, securities, and valuable objects to Russia, for safekeeping at 
the Kremlin, in Mosow. 
The same month there were deposited at the Kremlin the gold 
reserve of the National Bank of Rumania, amounting to 314,584,457 
gold francs, and two chests of jewels belonging to the Queen of 
Rumania, of an estimated value of 7,000,000 francs. Somewhat 
later, in 1917, an additional quantity of gold of a value of 574,524 
francs, likewise coming from the National Bank of Rumania, and 
securities belonging to the same Bank, representing a value of 
1,600,000,000 francs, were also deposited in Moscow. Other de- 
posits were effected at the same time by various institutions con- 
trolled by the Rumanian Government, as well as by private concerns, 
to a total value of about five billion francs. 
All these Rumanian deposits were seized by the Soviet Gov- 
ernment. 
Ie PropuctioNn or GoLp IN 
SIBERIA 
Siberia in 1917, 1918 and 1919 produced 59,040 kilograms of 
gold. 
A large portion of this gold was apparently held at Irkutsk. 
32,800 kilograms of gold were supposed to be in the vaults of the 
State Bank there at the time of the Bolshevist coup d’Etat, in 
January 1920. The greater part of that gold had been produced 
at the Lena mines and in the district of the Bodaibo laboratory. 
This gold had never been included in the balance sheets of 
the State Bank, and it must have been a pleasant surprise for the 
Bolsheviki to discover it. On the other hand, Ataman Semenoff 
was able to get about 8,200 kilograms of the gold, part of which 
he bought through special agents, and the rest seized on the 
persons of travelers passing through Daouria station. If we add 
to this the 2,738.8 kilograms of gold which the Bolsheviki had suc- 
ceded in exporting from Omsk in 1918, when they were supplanted 
by the Siberian Government, it will be found that at the beginning 
of 1920, there remained about 41,000 kilograms of gold of the 
production of the three preceding years. As to the remainder, of 
which it has been impossible to ascertain the exact umount, it must 
be either held by private persons or have been exported abroad. 
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