SEIZED BY FRENCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 5

SEIZED BY FRENCH

GOEBBELS’S NEST EGG IN LUXEMBURG. BLOCK OF SUEZ CANAL SHARES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. May 19. The Paris correspondent . of “The Times” reveals that the French Government has confiscated a nest-egg from which the German Propaganda Minister. Dr Goebbels, had been drawing dividends orr 100 Suez Canal shares worth over £7OOO through a bank in Luxemburg.

The “Paris-Soir” last September published a signed article by the American correspondent, H. R. Knickerbocker, who wrote the original articles concerning Nazi leaders’ fortunes, taking up Dr Goebbels’s challenge to produce evidence of the fortunes held abroad. Knickerbocker stated that three agents helped Dr Goebbels place capital abroad, namely: Wilhelm Achterbcrg, who travelled to Montevideo on behalf of the firm of Eherverlag, the publishers of “Mein Kampf,” and deposited 1,850.000 dollars on behalf of Dr Goebbels in the safes of a German importing firm in Buenos Aires; Thomas Bucher, a member of the executive of the Ministry of Propaganda, who. helped by the Kreisbank Aktlen Company, deposited on behalf of Dr Goebbels in Luxemburg bearer shares to the value of 2.480.000 bclgas. Paul von Boddcheim, a banking agent, who deposited on behalf of Dr Goebbels with the Osaka branch of the Nippon Kinko Bank bills and currency to a value of £465,000 sterling. Dr Goebbels’s life insurances were: On his own life. 330,000 dollars. 2.350,000 Netherlands florins, and 1235 bclgas: and on his wife's life. 670,000 Swiss francs, 4,500,000 Reichsmarks, and £89,000 sterling.