Incaleutable Wealth Seized by Soviets for Benefit of Famine Sufferers Moscow, May 15.
Silver by the ton, gold by the hundredweight, pearls by the bushel, and diamonds by the peck, dumped into wooden boxes, jute.sacks, pasteboard cartons, or merely wrapped in parcels—all this treasure hoard awaits opening and sorting at the storehouse for valuables confiscated by the Soviet Government from the churches and synagogues of Russia for the benefit of the famine sufferers.
The correspondent of the Associated Press was permitted to visit the five-story loft building which constitutes the storehouse by consent of M. I. Kalinin, Peasant President of Russia and head of all the famine relief organizations, One floor of the building, about 100 feet long and 45 feet wide, is already nearly filled with the articles confiscated in Moscow alone, these amounting to more than 90,000 pounds of silver, several hundred pounds of gold, and over 10,000 precious stones, mostly diamonds. Ré-
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