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...spires of Petrograd, only to be driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which he held sway to a third White Commander, General Anton Deniken, whose armies then dominated Southern Russia...
...bars into quarter-eagles, half-eagles, eagles, double-eagles. Assay office chemists in the annex to the Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars of gold. It was standard gold. It was, in fact, new gold-from Siberian mines, which now produce $25,000,000 worth a year. U. S. trade with Russia is now larger than before the war, about $100,000,000 a year. The Soviets look the dollar in the face...
Twenty crimson-dyed wooden kegs of Siberian gold bars (U. S. casks for gold export are white) stood idle four days of last week in the vaults of the Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, eating up $700 a day interest at the expense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which had exported gold to the U. S. for the first time. Standing orders have outlawed Russian gold since 1920. [Only last month Secretary Frank B. Kellogg had ruled against cashing of Russian Soviet railroad bond coupons by the Chase National (TIME...
...Majesty's Government concluded, last week, with the Russian Soviet Government, a most satisfactory treaty continuing the rights under which Japanese go every year to fish in Siberian waters. Though this vital document emerged through routine channels, its negotiation was rumored to have been greatly furthered, at Moscow, by the "unofficial" visit of that great statesman Viscount Shimpei Goto...
...ought to make good time- say 30 days to Urga-and if I am caught, that will be six months of Siberian exile, that...