'The agent has been in Shanghai for several months, arriving here from Harbin, where' his movements, were very mysterious. In the Settle ment he is said to have broadcast the story that he managed to escape Russia with his life and with valuable family heirloom, but it also has been said that he is a Bolshevik. agent, acting for Moscow, to realize funds' from the diamond maxts of Shanghai.
He is said to have visited jewellery shops on Nanking Road and to have offered for sale a.100-carat diamond, several merchants commenting on the stone as being a first class one in every respect, but that it was too large for them to handle and they could not cut it down, Even at a price of $100,000 no.one was inclined to. purchase it, and understood that the agent will have to go. elsewhere. Some. of the accessory stones on the brooch are reported to have been sold surreptitiously, The Story Disbelieved Questioned by a representative this paper, another Nanking Road jeweller spoke inno. uncertain terms of the rumour, "I must discredit the fact that such a stone is in Shanghai. It has not been offered on the street; and 1 cannot think of a 100-carat stone worth $500,000. Were it brought to me, and I appraised it ut such a figure, and it was then offered at $109,000, 1 would hypothecate my business, my wife's jewels and the motor car, and I would purchase it immediately. Were the stone of such value, the holders would not bring it to Shanghai, but would ce to New York at ence, ax 1 would, should I purchase
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