Evening star., 1923-05-08
:, THE MAnaUIsE DE FONTENoY.

BY THE MARaUISE DE FONTENof'
When the Germans. with their Aus
o-Hungarian. Bulgarian ana lurh
ish allies invaded Rumania In the
summer of 1916. spreading ruin ana
desolation everywhere. the relgnins
family, the national government the
national church and religious orders
dfsnatched all their most precious
belongings. including the crown Jew
els. the funds in the national pahRs
and in the state treasury 10 the
kremlin at Moscow for safekeepins'
in several special trains. Many OF
the great houses of the Rumahian
untitled nobility look advantage OF
this opportunity Of putting their
most valuable belongings beyond the
reach Of the invaders. An impression
has always prevailed that this treas
ure thus confided to the custody OF
the late Emperor Nicholas was sun
hald in tact in the vaults or the
kremlin. by the bolshevist junta al
Moscow. and was being retained as
means of forcing the Rumanlan gov
ernment to grant omclai recosh hi..oi
to the bolshevist junta, and TO sur
render to the latter the province OF
Ressarabia which Russia had been
forced TO restore to Rumanla py lhe
peace congress of Fersallles. foi
purposes of its own, the RumahlaN
royal family and government en-
couraged this impression. or at any
rate did nothing to dispei 1t, al
though considerable surprise mas
been manifested. both in Rumania
and abroad. at the ATTITUDE OF Dolo
independence assumed by the Bucna.
rest court and government, as IL tne
bolsheyist junta had no longer any
boId whatsoeyer upon the reigning
house at Bucharest, nor upon the
government there. the church and the
religious orders.
The fact has now been brought to
light that the treasure was AL
brought back from the kremlin TO
Bucharest just before the present
bolshevist junta obtained the COM
plete mastery there. 1t was brought
back mainly through the enterprise
the resourcefulness and the indom1-
able courage Of the late Col. Joseph
ton Hill. Middlesex, near London. both
the widowed empress mother OF
Russia. and the King and Queen OF
Rumania being represented iS
funeral by members OF tneir HousC
hold. and by floral emblems, to which
autograph cards were attached, ex-
pressive of kindly memory, warm ad-
miration, and of profound gratitude.
Col. Boyle, who wore on his breast
the British distinguished service
order, the officers cross or the Frencn
legion Of honor, the Russian order OF
St. George and high Rumanian orders,
was of Canadian birth of Irish origin,
and was no other than the "Joe
Royle" who was the manager, the
hacker and the chief associate of
Prank Slavin one of the giants OF
the prize ring in the days when
John l.. Sullivan, Charley Mitchell,
Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter jackson
were competing for championship
honors. With Slavin. Joe Boyle" as
he was familiarly known in sporting
circles north and especially south
Of the Canadian border, he went
prospecting for gold In the Klondike
region toward the close of the last
century, and ultimately became the
sole owner of the Immensely valuable
so called Boyle concession.
When the great war broke out.
Boyle-a perfect giant of a man.
organized the Yukon Machine Gun
Corps, mainly recruited of sturdy
miners like himself, and, after win
ming fame az q member OF the Cana
dian Army in France, was dispatched,
with some IT his best men. to Russia
a. Lead Of The British military