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Show TREASURE SRIP STORK REVEALED Fabulous Amounts Moved From Russia Across Pacific Pa-cific to Canada ICTUKIA. B. C, Oct. 16 Stories of a secret transfer of millions o' dollars of Russian gold from one Ship to another in half a gale at sea' Ott the Canadian Pacific coast and of 11 rush trio with I he money across the Canada in a heavily 'guarded special train, disguised tt a all express, were published in MM Jfictorifi Colonist recently re-cently as part of the bttjierto untold history of the world War. - -Two recent newspaper dispatcher minglj unrelated) The Colonist said. recalled the 'hitherto unpublished I and romantic story" of the gold ship-I ment i int dispati h from Eu.-ope said la Mr. N'ovltsky former assistant to I the minister of finance of the I All-Itusslun government has hinted: at ihe huge amnuni of gold shlppeu j , through X'uncouver. B C. during thei I war, including sixty million pounds from "ladivoctak. The other dls- l patch said the Canadian cruiser Ra:n-I Ra:n-I bow had been sold to a Seattle firm. I I The connection. The Colonist said, was, I in the fact the Rainbow trnnsfen ea : j a big shipment of the gold at sea j from a Japanese warship -ami brougrn . it to Vancouver I BI U1 s, SHIFMIA rS Kussia s gold, the- story continue'', I came in several shipments, the flrsi of which amouTif-il to about $45.oimi -noil It was In the form of bullion in' boxes about fifteen inches '.ong. and, was loaded at ludivowtok early In I 1916 for transfer to the Ottawa, Ban mint. A big Japanese warship, with: Novitsky In charge of the bullion, car- rled the money a cross the Pacific. Th,e treasure ship never touched a I Canadian poxt, however, for far out at' sea, the Italnbow in a near gale, Kiel j the warship and the precious freight wan transferred between the heave of (the rollers. The warship turned back and the little cruiser steamed Into I Vancouver, arriving at the Canadtu'j Paclftc dock at three o'clock on a dark land w'l morning Awaiting here were officials of the Dominion Express company who had come out from Montreal in their private priv-ate cur A picked rev put the nine jotj a special train of five express cars which had been switched into the i Canadian Pacific dock. Each Car w as 'loaded with $9,000,000 In gold. I Every door wa guarucd and barred and the transcontinental trln stalled A telephone system connected the I whole train and whenever a sentinel wished to move from one car to another an-other he did so on release from the j official ear. The doors were never I opened when the train was at a stand. 1 still and no guard was permitted to I show himself from the train window .-while .-while passing through towns. At night the train ran in darkness and at each d'vialonal point, when engines were I I hanged, detectives guarded the plat-'forms plat-'forms until the journey resumed. As jan additional nrecaulion. the train was operated at irregular speeds on different differ-ent legs of the t rip Sleighs bai ked up to the tram at Ottawa and the gold was unloaded and taken to the mint, under direction of 1 Novitsky. The train was 'he first of several which passed through Vancouver during dur-ing the war. In August 1 ! 1 6 another train tarried $50,000,000 across Canada Can-ada and in January 1917. $1 1 7,000,000 made the trip |