32,800 kilograms, consisting of an alloy of gold and silver, were
deposited for safekeeping at the Branch of the State Bank ‘in that
city. The remaining 151,438 kilograms were utilized as a basis for
credit operations, having been either sold or deposited as security.

The sales effected in 1919 included 53,005 kilograms of ‘gold
(68,261,497 rubles equal to $35,154,671), which were distributed
as follows:
To the French Government, in May
“British “ “
British and French in July
Japanese Government, in August
“ “ in September
French $+

Fra

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2,661,185
10,898,182
14,758,114
13,669,381
10,650,254
15,889,881

rubles

68,281,497

There was deposited as security a total of 98,433 kilograms,
of a value of 126,765,304 rubles ($65,284,132). This amount
included 31,680,765 rubles ($16,315,504) as security for
credits of 30,000,000 yen opened in Japan, 90,860,437 rubles
($46,793,125) for the operations with the Anglo-American Syndicate,
and 4,224,102 rubles for the purchase of rifles and machine guns
n America.
Tae God EvacuaTep From OMSK
At the time of the evacuation of Omsk there was thus left, out
of the original old stock of 645,256,387 rubles ($332,307,039)
an amount of 408,189,912 rubles ($210,217,805), which was
loaded in the days from October 28th to November 8th, 1919, on a
special train containing 40 cars.. Admiral Kolchak’s trains denoted
by the letters A, B, C, D, E, and the armored train left Omsk
during the day.of November 12 and in the following night. Omsk
was occupied on November 15. The Admiral had left on train B,
while the General Staff, the Exchequer, and the guard were carried
on trains A, C, Dy E. At Tatarskaya station train B ran into the
train which carried the gold, and a fire broke out, which destroyed
eight cars; 80 men of the guard were killed and 30 were injured.

Several cases with gold were lost, and after the load of the
destroyed cars had been placed in other cars, the trains arrived at
their destination, Novo-Nikolaevsk, where they remained until Dec-
ember 4. On that date, after a series of incidents, it became. pos-
sible to dispatch the trains further easward. The Czechs, who had
been seizing all locomotives for the evacuation of their troops.
refused to place at Admiral Kolchak’s disposal the seven locomotives

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