The daily Alaskan., 1920-12-16
RUSSIAN COLD
 SENT TO CANADA
Strange Story of Transfer of BuI- lion Made by Two War
 ships at Sea.
HURRIED ID OTTAWA MINT
Secretly Shipped Across Dominion in Heavily Guarded Special Train Hitherto Unpublished Romantic
 Story of the War.

Victoria, E. C.-Stories of a secret transfer of millions of dollars of Rus sian gold from one ship to another In half gale at sea oir the Canadian Pacific coast and of q rush trip with the money across Canada in heavily guarded special train, disguised as a silk express were published in the Vic tOria COlOniSt recently as part of the hitherto untold history of the World war.
 Two recent newspaper dispatches, seemingly unrelated, the COlonist said, recalled the hitherto unpublished and romantic story" of the gold shipment. One dispatch from Europe said Mir. Novitsky, former assistant to the min ister of finance of the all-Russian gov ernment, had hntcd at the huge amounts of gold shipped through Van couvcr, B. C., during the war, includ- ing EGO,OOOOOO from VladlyOstok.
 Warships Figure in Story.
 The other dispatch said the Cana dian cruiser Rainbow had been sold to a Seattle firm. The connection, the ColonTst said, was in the fact the Rain bow transferred big shipment of the gold at soa from a Japanese warship and brought it into Vancouver.
 RusSlas gold, the story continued, came in several shipments, the first of which amounted to about $Ij0O0OO0, t was in the form of bullion in boxes aIout frt@n inches long. and was loaded at N1uiivoStoI5 early in 19lG for transfer to the Ottawa (Cauada) mint. A big Japanese warShip with NoyiiZky in charge of the bullion, carried the money across the Pacific.
 Rainbow Gets Treasure.
 The treasure ship never touched Canadian port. however, for far out @t sea the Rainbow. in a ncar-Cale. met the warShip and the precious freight was transferred between the hcavcS of the rollers. The warshp turned hack and the little cruiser steamed into Van .couvcr, arriving at the Canadian Pa. cifc dock at three o'clock on a dark and wet morning.
 Awaiting her were officials of the Dominion Express company, who had come out from Montreal in their pri. v0te' car. A picked crew nut the money on q special train of five cX. press cars, which had been switched into the Canadian Pacific dock. Each car was loaded with &9O00O0O in goll,
 Greatest Caution Used.
 Every door was guarded and barred and tho trans"ontincntal trip started A telephone system connected the whole train, and whenever q sentinel wished to move from one car to an. other he did so on release from the official car. The doors were never opened when the train was at a stand still, and no guard was permitted to show himself from the train windows while passing through towns. At night the train ran in darkness, and at each divisional point when engines were changed, detectives guarded the plat form until the journey was resumed. As an additional precaution the train was operated at irregular speeds on different legs of the trip.
 Sleighs backed up 10 the train at Ot- tawa and the gold was unloaded and taken to the mint under direction of NOyitsky.
 The train was the first of several which passed through Vancouver dur ing the war. In August, 1916, another train carried $500OOOOO across Can ada, and in January, 1917, $l77,OOO,OO0 made the trip.