New York, Feb. 6.
Representatives of the exiled Belgian Government today started action to obtain a writ of attachment against the Bank of France funds here up to U.S. $260,000,000.
This action was taken on the basis of charges that the National Bank of Belgium. entrusted U.S. $260,000,000 worth of gold to the Bank of France ior safe-keeping when Germany invaded Belgium and which France sent to Dakar over Belgian opposition.
The Belgians charge that the French now are shipping the gold serially back to France for delivery io the Germans.
M: Georges Theunis, Ambassador of the Free Belgian Government to Washington, issued a statement saying. "If the Bank of France persists it will have to make good with its Own gold for every ounce of Belgian gold delivered to the Germans.
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