CZECH BALANCES IN LONDON
Question Of Transfer To Germany (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. March 16. The Government has asked the Bank of England not to make any exceptional transfer of Czechoslovak gold or balances without reference to the Government. Tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir .John Simon, made this announcement in reply' to a question in the House of Commons which suggested that he should prevent Urn large gold reserves held in London by the Czechoslovak National Bank being handed over to the German authorities. Sir John Simon said he understood that no req'uest for the transfer of any pari of the gold reserves had been made up to tlie present, CZECH GOLD SEIZED PRAGUE. March 1(1. The Reiclisbu nk Illis taken over be tween £1 1.600.000 .iml £18,250.000 worih of gold in foreign exchange reserves from tlie Cz.ecli National Bank, representing 72 per cent, of its reserves.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 11
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148CZECH BALANCES IN LONDON Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 11
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