New York, Apr. 6.
Russian gold bars figure in an in. ternational law-suit which opened here to-day.
The plaintiffs are the Banque de France and the defendants the Chase National Bank and the [Gaaranty Trust Company.
The Banque de France secks the recovery of $5,000,000, the value of gold bars sent for sale to New York in 1928 by the Bolsheviks who seiz~ Jed them from the State Bank Petrograd. The Banque de France claims that it bought the gold bars from the Imperial Russian Government: beforogtho revolution.
When the proceedings started in 1928 the Soviet withdrew the gold bars to Russim but.undertook to indemnity the banks if it lost the
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