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Show DPECK SEIZED BY RUSSIANS i Silver By Ton, Gold By Hundred Goes Into Huge W arehouse FOR FAMINE RELIEF Workers Without Pockets 1 Sort Out Fortunes From Churches MOSCOW, May 13 (Bv the Associate.! Asso-ciate.! Press) -Silver by the ton. go.d by the hundredweight, pearls by the bushel and diamonds by the peck, dumped Into wooden boxes, jute sacks, pasteboard cartons, or merely wrapped in parcels all this treasure hoard j , graltlng opening end sorting at the ..i. house for aluables confiscated I ', the soviet government from thc churches and synagogues ..f Russia for( the benefit of the famine sufferers. ; The correspondent of the Associated Preas was permitted to visit the five-1 t-torv loft building which constitutes , th. storehouse by consent of M lO-j llene. peasant president and head ofj all the relief organizations One floor of the building, about 100 feet long and 40 wide filled with the articles confiscated In Moscow alone Ihe' amounting to more than 90.00 pound: of silver. several hundred pounds of gold and over ten thousand of precious stones, mostly diamonds Requisitioned articles from the nro-vlnclal nro-vlnclal churches are to bo stored on the other four floors. Bach of the packages In the big room Is sealed The yield from some of the monasteries was too large for a single packaRC. overflowing Into smaller small-er boxes at Ihe sldo. A rough list of the articles confiscated confis-cated accompanies each box as It is brought under heavy guard, to the storehouse, but tho exact value only will be known when appraisers open the parcels and sort their contents. PCX Kirii.l sl TT These experts and also the workmen who will unpack the boxes, are to be stripped of their ordinary clothing ami j provided with pocketless suits when, the ta.sk of sorting begins. Motor trucks fuirly bristling with baonets of the soldier escorts drive up to the treasure house all through the day and night, bringing boxes from tho churches. From the outer gates, to the roof, the building swarms with guards To get permission to enter it At all, one must first visit another; building where some other state trea.s-1 ures are stored, and where soMlers even prevent pedestrians from walk-' inK n the side of the street on which the building fronts no |