Mr. F. Meynell's Story of the Russian Jewels Mr. Francis Meynell, late director of the "Daily Herald,' in a recent number of the '"(Communist," of which he is editor, tell a sensational story of the Russian jewels, and claims that Sir Basil Thomson, of the C.I.D., has failed to find out what he did with "the £75,000 of the Third International money which was in my hands."
Mr. Meynell tells how, when he was travelling to Finland, he chatted with '"'one of Thomson's men."
"Wishing to make an impression, he volunteered the information that he was a Secret Service man. A month later in Finland he turned up, having found out only then that I was the man he was destined to watch. 4 "On another occasion I was abroad on paper-buying business when a large quantity of pearls and diamonds came into my possession for conveyance to England.
received warning.. that I was to be searched on my return to England.
"In the end, followed by Thomson's creature. 1 bought a box of chocolate creams, pressed! a diamond or a pearl into every chocolate in the lower layers, rearranging them Pie cee went out for a walk, leaving the box on my dressing-table, and my door open. When I came back it was clear that the lid of the box had been taken off, and then, as all seemed innocent, replaced. posted it. When it arrived in London—the box was worth perhaps £10,000—my wife and 1 made ourselves rather sick through having to suck large quantities of chocolates in order to free the delicate jewels within them.
"On yet another occasion I was stopped at a British port by Thomson's sleuths, and my luggage was searched. I found it quite difficult, I remember, to talk to them at all intelligibly with three large dia-mands in my mouth trying to rattle against my teeth.
Mir. Meynell concludes by asking Sir Basi] to note "that months ago the whole of the Bolshevik jewel money was sent abroad and handed back to where it came from."
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