POLISH GOLD
CONSIGNMENT OF SEVENTY TONS ARRIVAL IN FRANCE. AFTER ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) PARIS, October 24. Seventy tons of Polish gold has arrived after an adventurous journey of 6200 miles,- by road, rail and ship across Turkey, Rumania, Syria and the Meiterranean. It was taken from the vaults at Warsaw in the first week of the war and carried by lorry to Rumania, surviving German air attacks en route. It was then entrained for Constanza, where a Turkish ship transported it to Syria. A French vessel then carried it to France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 6
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