The Calumet news., 1914-08-13
WAR CHESTS OF
EUROPE HOLD
TWO BILLIONS
France, Germany and Austria Alone
Have S135,OO0,000

NAANi'NAA sAAAAANAAAAtS nkAANu TIA
when the Balkan war besan and ther
was dread among the common peopl
OF Europe that general war Nigh
result nearly $350,O0O,0OO in gold va
boarded in three countries i'm SUM
ranging from a gold piece of two III
To tens OF thousands OF dollars
Austria Hungary was credited Will
hiding away sl5O.0OO,O0O, German,
S65,OO0,OOO and France SlSO.OOO, 600.
This was money which had beer
traced into those countries just before
the Balkan hostilities began and after
war started. in addition to this vast
sum there was an unguessablc quantity
Of gold already buried in the ground
Russia is believed To have tens of
| thousands of hoarders of money. 1t is
utterly impossible To guess at the
| amount OF gold which the people of
Russia have put into the ground or into
the cellars of their homes. The sign
OF wealth would mean the coming of
the tax collector, and among the men
who look poor are owners OF countless
weight in gold.
Much Gold in Russia.
Vast sums Of gold and silver coin
have gone into Russia, which seldom
lets so of il. The great imperial war
chest has behind it, if the signs mean
anything, other sums in little war
chests-gold which the government
might draw out if il offered lands for
sale, or bonds the people would trust,
or opportunities in commerce hereto
fore denied them.
England has its hidden boards, no
one knows how large or how many,
but there is concealed in England
nothing like the amount that is hidden
in continental Europe, where foreign
armies have only to cross a surveyed
boundary line or little creek to raid
their enemies. Turkey, whose people
have been terrorized for ages, has more
lost boards than the world will ever
know about, because there the hoard
ing has gone on for ages, during which
armies have swung up and down the
denuded lands, tearing down cities and
destroying everything that could give |
comfort or sustenance to an enemy.
Spain Has Millions.
Spain has millions of dollars in gold, !
silver, pearls and gems buried and lost :
in thousand ancient castles, monas-
teries and other public buildings. In
the heyday of her glory Spain import ,
ed countless millions in gold and sill \
Yer from the Americas and faithless
officials made away with great sums in |
bullion, hiding ii away-and many of
them never recovered it. q
India is the bottomless pit of the +,
worlds gold. In one year India i'm
ported $3O0,OO0,OOO and there has never
been time, apparently when India
was not importing gold, silver and
precious jewels. In the temples of In
liza there are said To be $1,SO0, ,000, 900 in
precious metal and precious stones.
ndia has more fine pearls than all the
est of the world put together. They |
nave even gold cannon there--cannons
hat weigh 2SO pounds each.
Jewels in India.
The tourist sees some OF this gold:
+ visitor should attend a function
'lVen by one OF the princes of India
le would see jewels whose value he
ould not estimate. Afghan, Mogul, |
tartar, raiding through India. found
Millions upon millions, but the troops
M not find it all. In the ground i'm
'laces where none could find or would
uspect, is the vast wealth which the
ItlEnG ,f India |
The Ameer OF Bokhara, a Russian
assal in Central Asia is said to have
cen accumulating "A hoard amounting
d SS,OOO,OOO a year, and this is kept
great vault where Russia might
ossibly find "A resource in case of
eed. In Egypt and along the north
hore of Africa the Barbary Coast peo-
lie have their boards estimated by the
llllions. The lost treasure Of the Incas
estimated at $500, 900 in gold.
No one is able to guess the amount
gold that has been looted in the
istory of the world by raiding armies.
When the wars of old were waged
illions Of treasure changed hands
'om the vanquished to the victors
he treasure was commonly the public
mas. Men known to have wealth were
eld for ransom, enslaved, tortured. cut
} pieces bit by bit in the effort to
1mpcl the revelation of hiding places
Treasure in Carthage.
In the ruins of Carthage is a vault N
lat holds the treasure of the vandal E
enseric, which was not found when II
arthage finally fell. The buried treas
re- Of CarcassOnne in southern France u
as put away when the Huns and 20
laws ranged over Europe trying to E
terminate the Latins. Alaric the
9th looted Rome and cached his
easure in CarcassOnne, tradition SAYS,
deep cave, and killed the men who
slped him stow it away, and it has q
ever been found. n
This treasure was part of it from y
jlomon's Temple, Titus having raided n
and made away with the N
easurc that Solomon had gathered y
,, and which was part of the loot q
at King David had captured in his
eat wars OF conquest and defense. II
here was the accumulation of teni
INJURIES Of profit in the Temple OF 4
,lomon.