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Dispatches appearing in the New York Times,
1919-1922, Regarding Movements of
Russian Gold

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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 Canadian
 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 December
 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.

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