White Russia's Lost Bullion: Poverty-Stricken Peers: Native "Catholic Bishop: Golf's Firm Hold: Troops' Stay in China Fnow or Own 5 Tokyo, July 29, There is over a mill of gold bullion owner. This pallion is lying in the vaults of the Tokyo office of the: Yokohama. Specie Bank -and- was: brought to Japan, to procure war supplies for the "White Russians against. the Red regime, in 1920, When there -were expectations. of forming a buffer state between Red Russia and the Pacific Ocean.
chief of the White Army in Siberia, Ataman time, was Dut his forces were overwhelmed by the Reds, Simionov himself fleeing in. an aeroplane from Chita to Dauria, The pallion could not be put to any use, though Ataman Simionov and his sympathisers more than once proposed that should form the nucleus of a new war-chest with which to make yet another drive against the Reds in Siberia, The years passed, the Red regime appeared to have come to stay and, when Japan resumed diplomatic negotiations with Moscow, Ataman Simionov's hopes to open another Grive on the Soviet were doomed. At any rate, Japan could not very well permit either Japan proper or any of her possessions or spheres of influence to be turred into anything even remotely resembling base of operations, In the meantime, Ataman Simionov tried to segute this one million odd yen, but the Japanese authorities resolutely Tefused to give it up, contending} that it did not belong to the Ataman, but to the defunct Siberi Government, Simionov delivered yesterday, declaring that Simionov was not entitled to the money. nasions monarchists in Paris are) reported to have cabled to. the] Tapanese Government, asking that! the money be turned over to them, on the ground that really itis the rty of the 'Tearist' Government, Lawyers here, however, are of opinion that, if the money is de-oe clared by Court judgment to belong] to the Tsarist "regime, then the Soviet Government, as successors, a matter that Japan hay recognized fully, will be entitled to the money arid undoubtedly will claim the sum.
Thus far, the verdict is that: "Ataman Simionov is not entitled to the money but it has yet to be settled as to who should be regarded -as the real owner, Simionov is in grave financial embarrassment. All but sure of receiving this huge sum, ho had borrowed.extensively and now is in a serious pecuniary Nobles in Pawn Shop The financial quake which shook 4 Tapan 30 severely thas caused considerable financial embarrassment} to, a section of "Japan's nobility. Even as the French nobility had to sell their jewels and pawn thei 'Yaluables after the triumph of sane-culotte, so have a number of Japan's peers been compelled to make stealthy visits to. 'Tokyo's pawn shops. 'The aristocrat community suffered most when the Fifteenth Bank (popularly Peers' Bank, because most of the nobility had their money there) failed. One member of the Peerage called on the Imperial Household Ministry and aid that he was in, Very embarrassed circumstances, He had some money which he deposited in the Fifteenth Bank and on the interest he received from this capital he managed to live. When. the Fifteenth, Bank closed its doors, ho was compelled to live with his on, who is a clerk in an office and draws a small salary and he also had to withdrawn his son's children from school, Many noblemen have been com-Pelled, through sheer force of, circumstances, to dismiss most of their. retainers, some of whom have been with noble families for generations. "The authorities are considerably perturbed lest the present Penurious state of Japan's nobles may constitute @ serious social problem. There are members of the nob.
who are said to be very bitter against the Imperial Household department, declaring that, when it suddenly withdrew Y.3,000,000 from the Peers' Bank, such action constituted a contributing factor which led to the failure,
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