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Show SPECIAL TRAIN BHS MILLIONS Gqld and Securities From Bank of England Arrive in New York. IS RECORD SHIPMENT Great Secrecy Maintained in Transporting Treasure Special Precautions Are Taken by Express Company. New York, Aug. 11. A special train carrying $52,000,000 worth of gold and securities, which had been, shipped by the Bank of England from Lon-donhy Lon-donhy the way of Halifax; N. S., to this city, arrived hero today. The train was composed of several steel cars and was guarded by forty armed men. Of the total shipment, $36,000,000 was in gold and was believed to bo In the form of American .double eagles. The weight of the gold shipment ship-ment was about seventy-five tons It was said to bo tho largest single shipment ship-ment of gold ever sent across the Atlantic At-lantic ocean in one vessel Battleship Brings Gold. It was brought over-Jn a British battleship, which was convoyed through the war zone and across tho ocean by a cruiser and a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers to guard against an attack of German submarines. subma-rines. The cost of transferring it from London to New York was estimated today to havebeen $250,000. Treasure for Canada. It was said that tho British battle-ship battle-ship brought over, not only the $52,-000,000 $52,-000,000 in gold and securities for New York, but also, a shipment of gold destined for Canada, whose treasury recently sent gold amounting to $135,-000,000 $135,-000,000 to New York. Great Secrecy Maintained. secrecy was maintained in sending this great shipment of gold and precautions pre-cautions were taken to prevent the German secret sen-ice from discovering discov-ering the plan, or route of forwarding lr At Halifax, It was delivered into the custody of the American Express company and when the armed train left that city it v. as preceded by a pilot engine for the purpose of testing test-ing bridges and to frustrate any attempt at-tempt to wreck the train by the use of dynamite This precaution was suggested by the exploit of Werner Horn, the German reservist who attempted at-tempted to blow up the St. Croix river bridge on February 2, to stop shipments ship-ments of munitions to tho allies. Tho route over which tho train proceeded from Bangor, Me., to New York was kept secret. Robert E. M Cowie, vice president and general manager of ' the American Express company, said that the transfer was the greatest great-est risk ever taken by an express company. Eight Policemen Meet Train. Eight policemen wero sent to meet the train here and guard the gold until it was delivered at the sub-treasury. sub-treasury. ' J. P. Morgan & Co of this city were the consignees The purpose of the transfer of gold was understood to be to reinforce British credit there and to Improve the oxchange situation, situa-tion, as the English pound sterling has depreciated of late. The securities securi-ties are presumed to bo American bonds, to be used as the basis for further fur-ther advances to the British government. |