The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1920-12-02
RUSSIAN COLD
SENT TeeAAAbA
Strange story Of Tfaasfef q BH.
ion Made byfWo War
4 ships al SEQ.
HURRIED 70 .gfFiNI MINT
Secretly Shipped Across Dominion In
Heavily Guarded Special frain-.
Z Hitherto Unpublished Romantic
Story Of the War.

transfer Of. millions Of dellars Of Ras.
sians gold from one ship to another In
half d, gale at sen on the Canadian
Pacific coast and Of rfsii trip with
the money across Canada m a heavily
guarded special traif, Disguised Nv a
1silk express were published In the Vic
Etorfa Colonist recently as part Of the
lhitheptd untold History Of fhe World
Ewar.- e, ~
/ Two Ydcefat 9 newspaper disbafsehess,
seemingly unrelated, the Coiofist said,
recalfplf tiia 1'hlflieftc unpublished and
romantic story" Of tie gold shipment
One Dispatch from Europe said a Mr.
ENovitsky, former assistant to the min
Lister of finance of the all-Russlan gov.
Pertinent, lmtdI liiueedl at the hlge
amoaHtseef solaasiiippsi through Van
couveny b. during TIE war, iidud'
Ing SeeO0O.9UOs from Vladiv0st8a.
WarsAlps Figure IN story.
The otlter dispatch said tie Cana.
Edlan cruiser Taiiibow Had been sold 10
la Seattle frf. Tie cQnuection, the
.Coienist said, .was iasthe fact the Rain.
.Ebow transferred a big shipment Of the
j A + 7
gold at seq from a Japanese warshlp
and brought It into Vancouver.
Russia's gold. the story continued'
came in several shipments, tile flfst Of
which amauntel to aboht $45, Oot.eOO.
1t was in she, form Of bullion IN hoses
about iiftean inches long, and was
Ioaded at Vladivnstok early I'd 1915 for
transfer toxthes9ttawa tCapadab mint
A big Japanese warshlp wifi Noyitskg
In charge OF the bullion. carried the
money sstlie Pacific.
RsinboW Gers Treasuf6
The treasure SHIP never touched d
Canadian port however, for far out at
sea tIie Rainbow, in d near-gafs,, net
the warsllip and the precious fke!sht
was transferred between the heatea Of
the rollers. The warship tlfhBd back
and tie little cruiser steamed Into Van.
|ceuver, arriving at the Canadian Pa
ci6c dock at three oscibek On a dark
and vet morning.
4 Awaiting her were ofiiciais De sIle
Dominion Express company. who HID
/ come ont from Montreai Id their pfis
vate car. a picked crew put TIE
money on a special train IL five M
press cars, which, had bssn switched
Into tie Canadian Pacific dock Each
car was looilea Win -, go O66 III SbBdI
0reaseat Caution ussd.
Every door was guarded and buried
/ aAd The transcontinental trsp started:
@A telephone system connected the
whole train, and whenever i sentinel
wished to move from one cur to slis
other he did 80 oil release from tlie
official carr The doors we're neyai
opened when the traln was at q stand.
still and no guard was permitted to
show himself from tfie train windows
while passing through towns. At night
the train ran in darkness; and at each
divisional pointf When engineer were
changed detectives guamed TIE plat
form until the Journey was resumed
/ AS an additional preeadtlUAa u . train
was operated at irregular speeds on
different legs OF the trip.
SIeighs backed up to the tfsin at OF.
tawa and tlle gold was a11lel ded and
taken to the mint under direction Of
Noyltsky.
The train was the tirst at several
which passed through Vancouver dir
ling the war IngAusust; 4 1eaAngtlef
train carried $5O,d 0Oe acres llsh.
ada, and in January, 1917. $l77,OOUOOO
made the trip.