Two Russians from Vladivostok with $2,000,000 Worth Reports of thefts of gold from the Soviet Gold Mining Ca, at Via vostok by two ex-employees who are at present in Shanghai are citculating in local Russian circles It is said that the two men dis appeared from the otices of the company with the gold, valued at approximately $2,000,000, How this huge consignment' was shipped to Shanghai is not explained, Three members of the Soviet secret, service are said to have arrived het to prosecute the search for the men and the gold, The alleged facts of the theft are briefly as follow: On July ly before the arrival at Via of Soviet auditors the two men decamped to Harbin in tke company of another foreigner, All were disguised as women, The trio were subsequently traced to Dalton, where two of them embarked board a Japanese boat, ostensibly for Yokohama, via Shanghai. They have neither arrived at Yokohama nor landed under their own names It is expected that the assistance of the Settlement and French police will be sought by the Soviet authorities in the search for the men, According to a message from Harbin to the "'Slove," a leading local Russian daily, the three secret service agents are from the Viadivostok section of the G. P. U, and have been sent'to trace the whereabouts of a Mr. A, Anisimoff, general manager of the Central Sovie: Gold Mining Ca. at Vladivostok, Jand a subordinate named Fokin, The Commissioners found that the missing men had left Vladivostok ith about 50 boods of gold in, addition to other gold that was missing.
A number of arrests were made and it was found that beth Ani moff and Fokin had, during June, secretly smuggled a large quantity of gold abroad: through foreign Agents of the G. P. U. later learnt definitely that' the two men had left Vladivostok and wires were sent to the bord stop them. On July 6, it was diseovered that the culprits had passed through Pogranichnaia disguised as women and accompanied Ly two foreigners. Several days later, three members of the G. P. 0. were ordered to Harbin in search of them, only to find that the to wanted men had spent three days in the homes of their, foreign accomplices after which they had left for Japan, vig Shanghai.
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