Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-06 | Page 5 | Belgium Acts to Seize Funds of Vichy 'Frozen' in New York

a BELGIUM I ACTS TO SEIZE FUNDS I I OF VICHY FROZEN IN NEW YORK NEW YORK Feb 6 AP The AP-The The exiled Belgian govern- govern l nt ent nt prepared Thursday to seize in French funds efe re as payment for that amount of pf gold it sent to France for afe keeping and which it is says now being turned over to WA A writ of attachment covering hat at figure In funds ol of the Bank Banket of et France was issued Wednesday je enn the federal reserve bank of Pew New York believed to hold large founts amounts of French funds which eve e been frozen n by the United cites State Supreme me Court Justice Morris orris Eder Issued the writ on representations by G George rge Theunis Belgian ambassador extraordinary nd d. d officials acting for the Nai National Na Na- i 1 l bank of Belgium Service ervice of the writ would tie tiep up p the French funds held by the reserve serve erve bank pending further court action ion Under usual procedure the reserve Serve b bank would accept the writ land hand officials of the Bank of France rv uld be notified end and given an opP opportunity op op- P to present a defense The c case Se then would be settled in the courts t VIt i the court action n Theunis formerly prime minister of his n now occupied nazi-occupied homeland told th the story of 01 the missing gold entrusted entrusted entrusted en en- trusted to France before it t too o fell feH When Germany invaded Belgium Belgium Belgium Bel Bel- gium he said the National Bank of Bt Belgium entrusted a large part of Its gold to the Bank of France Iii for safe sale The primary and anda a agreed d purpose was to prevent the gold from falling into the hands of the Ufe Germans l The Bank of France shipped the gold to Bordeaux and when inJune InJune in inJune June the fall of Fance occurred and acid the armistice negotiations V Sven were re undertaken bt between tween Germany Gerr Ger Ger- r many ny and France the Bank of B Belgium sought to take back its jold old ld for shipment to London IThen he said the first hitch came when the Bank Bahk of France Francer r refused fused to deliver the gold to a British cruiser and instead put Itri it iff ri a French vessel which he said took look it to Dak Dakar r West Africa I The Belgian government in tn ondon is now informed that i due to continued Geril German Ger Ger- il iian man n pressure upon the French authorities au- au th the gold is now being r by airplane from Da- Da var ir r to Marseilles for for delivery to toh h he Germans he declared French funds here were believed nore than sufficient to cover the sought since mon money y longing to the French Anglo-French pur- pur 11 hasing sing commission remained In his country after the French co col- col 1 apse