79 11 921 Dispatches appearing in the New York Times, 1919-1922, Regarding Movements of Russian Gold 04 97 bs no 20 5 4~4 75 38 0 4 21 New York Times, July 2, 1920 MORE RUSSIAN GOLD ARRIVES IN AMERICA MORGAN & CO. ANNOUNCE RECEIPT OF 12,000,000 RUBLES FOR BRITAIN’S ACCOUNT Shipment Assumed to Have Been Sent by Kolchak to Pay Off New York-London Loan. The arrival of 12,000* rubles gold at San Francisco yesterday was announced by J. P. Morgan & Co. This gold, it was said, had been received for the account of the British Government with the Morgan firm and the account of J. P. Morgan & Co. will be credited with the metal at the Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco. In terms of American monev the shipment is worth approximately $6,500,000. This is the second large arrival of gold on the Pacific Coast within the last few weeks. The first, amounting to $22,200,000, came in at San Francisco and Seattle, the latter by way of a Ca- nadian port, on May 27. At that time it was stated that the gold had come from Hongkong and was part of the collateral which the Kolchak All-Russia Government had deposited at Hongkong to secure an advance of about $38,000,000 made by a syndicate of New York and London banks. The loan to the Kolchak Government was arranged in De- cember last and was to have run for eighteen months, but it was stated in May that half of the loan had been paid off, the collateral released and disposed of to the British Government. Whether vesterday’s arrival was also part of the Kolchak gold was not known here. but it was assumed that it was New York Times, October 7, 1920 GOLD SHIPMENT NOT RED. ESTHONIAN GOVERNMENT SENT SUSPECTED $339,636 FOR TRADE. WasHINGTON, October 6:—The $339,636 which was recently mysteriously shipped into this country from Russia came from Reval and from the Esthonian Government, so the Department of * Obviously a misprint: should be 12.000.000. 29