The Gordon Journal

TREASURE HIDDEN IN RUSSIA

Fortunes In Gold and Jewels Successfully Concealed From Soviet Officials.

Treasures of gold and jewels are still hidden in Russia, secure from soviet requisitions and robberies, their estimated value mounting into the hundreds of millions of gold rubles. Russian families, especially in jewel collections, were far more wealthy than families of corresponding means in other countries, and it is certain that neither the soviet nor refugees have taken all these gems for sale abroad. On several occasions, families have told the correspondent how they outwitted the soviet agents. In one family, diamond and pearl neck laces were broken up and the parts hidden, at dead of night, in bed posts in the tubing of electric light conduits, in garbage pails and even in paper-weights lying exposed on a table. When soviet agents came to make inspections they tapped the walls, tore up the floors and dug in the gardens, but found nothing. With free trade, many of these hidden treasures are coming out, to be sold in the market to tide the owners through the winter.