WAR LOOT
LEGAL BATTLE FOUGHT GOLD SOLD BY MISTAKE (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright). (Rec. 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17. Thirteen bars of gold claimed by a French company were sold by mistake from the vaults of the Bank of England, where they had been kept, it was stated in the Appeal Court to-day. “It is a pretty kettle of fish,” Judge Sir Raymond Evershed commented. The gold was part of 64 bars, valued at £260,000, for which Dolfuss Meig et Compagnie has been fighting a legal bottle. The bars were looted by the Germans in 1944, during their retreat through Limoges, and were found in the American zone of Germany and brought to London for safe custody. The Court .to-d'ay reserved judgment on the company’s appeal against a previous decision staying all proceedings in the action. During to-day’s hearing counsel for the Bank said that, after a writ had been issued, 13 bars were sold through a mistake of an official in the Bank of England. Counsel for the company said that, in fact, the 13 bars had now ceased- to exist as identifiable gold— Reuter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 107, 18 February 1950, Page 5
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