GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

_ ! ~ (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MINISTER AT DURAZZO. RUGBY. April h>. The King has approved of the appointment of Sir Robert Hodgson lately his Majesty's Charge d’All'airs ul Aloscow. as Minister at Durazao. REMAP K A 81. E ALI /EG ATIONS. LONDON. April 13. The story of the transhipment of a inillien pounds of gold in mid-Chan-nel at midnight, reads like an old time incident of smuggling and piracy. The Soviet Government shipped ingots valued at £1.010,000 to America. A French hank claimed the money on the ground that it was the same gold it deposited in the Russian State Bank in Rllo-17. The French Government obtained an injunction in American courts, preventing the money being landed thore. The gold was re-ship-ped to Bremen to the Norddelitcher steamer Dresden, and to call at Cherbourg. where it was expected the French authorities would seize the g.iliL The Russians chartered a steamer and awaited the Dresden six miles If Falmouth, outside territorial waters. They wirelessed the plan of campaign to the Dresden and went alongside shortly after midnight. The mone\ was lranshipi>ed without a hitch ami with the utmost speed. The Hussion steamer then steamed oil to an unknown dost i nut ion.

STORY DENIED. LONDON. April In. The Sunday Express's Paris correspondent says the Dresden rallied Cherbourg: “Ship now going to Bremen; gold intact." The contain laughed uproariously at the story of the alleged transhipment of the Soviet gold in mid-Channel. He said : “The gold is part of ray cargo and I would not allow the French authorities or anyone else lu remove it. I shall i)uLi' relinquish responsibility therfore, when it is handed over to the consignee at Bremen.