REMOVAL ALLEGED

Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1946, Page 8

REMOVAL ALLEGED

VALUABLES FROM JAPAN MOSCOW, March 17. The newspaper Pravda promineiltly displays-a despatch from its vladivostock corresponclent stating that the American niilitary authorities have removed from Japan a quantity of gold, jewellery and other valuables and a considerable quantity of weapons, aircraft, suhmarines and ships. The correspondent quotes the Pacific Stars and Stripes as the source of his information. A Tokio niessage says that MajorGeneral W. H. Marquat, who is in charge of headquarters of the economic and scientific section, denied Russian reports that the United States Army was moving valuahle metals from Japan to America. "One miilion dollars worth of gold, silver, platinum -and jewellery is still under military guard in the vauits of the Bank of Japan," he said. Some radium, he added, was recently shipped out of Japan, but-. it was en route to Czechoslovakia, from where it was originally seized by the Germans, eventually turning up in Japan. Mr. C. E. Thomas, aide to General Marquat,^ explained that it was up to the Allied Powers to decide the disposition of valuahle stores and rtot just the United States. ~Mr. Thomas esti mated the value of the holdings at 250,000,000 dollars.