Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free May 1985 Leningrad construction Crew stumbles onto a czars Ransom by Gabriel Ronay the sunday London a Hoard of czarist treasure Worth millions of dollars has been disco Vered in a secret storeroom built in a Leningrad apartment at the height of the russian revolution nearly 70 years the owner of the apartment in what was then Petersburg was a senior official of the czars govern ment who clearly hoped to Salvage his valuables from the red the Cache was unearthed in a walled up chamber measuring 12 feet by six feet Between the second and third floors of a Over crowded mansion it includes Gold and Silver Silver Cand Silver dinner per Sian Meissen Ermine and Silver Fox three violins one a Stradivarius and a stamp collection featuring a Brit ish 1840 Penny also hidden in the once elegant building were cases of liqueurs and Coffee and boxes of chocolates and the visiting card of the who called himself Vladimir de Lebzin in keeping with the francophone affectations of the czarist upper investigators have Learnt that one Vladimir lab Zin did indeed own the apartment and was a High ranking civil ser vant with the Interior ministry in it seems quite said the journal Ogo Nyok Little re porting the that who used to be entrusted with special missions and reported directly to the minister believed that after the storms and earthquakes he could return to his Flat and continue his old a forlorn of the Lapin treasure has lain untouched in the building on what is now red army Street during its occupation by scores of people a family to each room throughout the Revo Lution and the civil War that Fol the Stalin the nazi occupation of Leningrad and the postwar City Council workmen broke through to the secret chamber while carrying out repairs to the crumbling mansion most such finds As Many As two out of it is estimated Are not reported and the czarist Memora Bilia find their Way on to the Black this there were too Many workmen involved for the discovery to be hushed up and news of it was announced on soviet no descendant of Lebzin has come Forward to claim the treasure and the six families who now live in the apartment stand Little Chance of benefiting from it is More than Likely that some of the Hoard will end up As yet another exhibit of a bygone Era in a soviet but russian hearts Are excited by thoughts of czarist Gold and the new find May Well rekindle the fever that has broken out from time to time since the prewar Publica Tion of a novel called the twelve which told of czarist trea sure concealed in chairs to pre serve it from the Reagan both wins and loses at Bonn Summit compromises worked out on key issues by Hedrick Smith times news service Bonn by scaling Down his political goals and anticipating worries among the allies Over the space based defence pro president Reagan has avoided a political clash at the Sevenna Tion conference Here and has come off better on political than on eco nomic Over his leadership has been dealt a setback by French opposition on an International Trade con Ference and by the Broad criticism of his Trade embargo against Nica but on the issues of arms Reagan leaves the conference with a show of Western however vaguely formulated on the missile defence he has obtained an indirect expression of based on his pledge to move in close and on the lure of defence the president did not seek and did not get endorsement of his missile defence based on his assurances to the the program won a generally positive except from the conference ended with a fairly typical pattern of Patchwork when Secretary of state George Shultz was asked whether Reagan had been the dominant he shied you get a Bunch of Heads of state Here and nobody is going to he the president has been a Strong figure and so have the loss of nerve alleged another official said president Francois Mitterrand of France had been the dominating one no american participant said Reagan and the american delegation had not shown Strong Leader they lost their he alluding to the juror Over the visit today to the Pitburg military the Bonn conference has been a mixed its w photo Reagan goes Over a document with Mulroney while Treasury Secretary James Baker looks pluses and minuses add up to much less than reagans successful management of the 1983 conference in they parallel the presidents record in Congress this winning on the my but losing on Aid to Nicara Guan rebels and some of the critical Senate budget the United states took Comfort that it had obtained an approving statement for the american negotiating position in arms talks with the soviet Union in Geneva arid a Call for Moscow to be More flex but Western european spokes men said that the political Declara Tion contained a fairly vague and lukewarm endorsement at and not the kind of ringing endorsement that the United states wanted and said it by Allied Satin at nazi Camp site to protest cemetery visit West Germany a a worldwide contingent of jew ish protesting president Ronald reagans visit to a Ceme Tery where is soldiers Are massed at the military graveside saturday an staged a Satin at the site of a nazi concentration the president added the Stop to his itinerary in an attempt to quell the rising tide of protest Over his visit to the Pitburg military Ceme where 49 members of the nazi is Are buried alongside Ger Man War the juror Only sixteen american jews staging a Satin at the Bergen Belsen concentration where More than 000 said they would defy police orders to Clear the area in Advance of reagans visit to the memorial we must never again be vowed rabbi Avraham one of the two rabbis protesting civil rights activist Dick Gregory joins jews in protesting reagans visit to Pitburg reagans visit to the Pitburg Ceme at mayor Theo Hallet a permit also was Given to if we do not remember what no one will the group planned to make a personal Appeal to Reagan West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to abandon their plans for a 10minute visit to the Pitburg site later in the approved two separate demonstrations coinciding with the Reagan visit to the Kolm Shohe Peter a spokesman for the said up to 500 Mem Bers of the world Union of jewish students were Given permission to demonstrate at the Pitburg City cemetery about a Kilometre from the military West germans for a demonstration against reagans arms policies at a nearby town in several Hundred Many of them second world War resistance fighters or deportees sent to work in German concentration demonstrated near the embassy against reagans and West Germany would go no further than to say that they appreciate the positive american proposals in the arms the dispute Over Nicaragua arose because the president chose to de Clare the embargo on the eve of the after his delegation was already West and Canada All took Issue with the americans Tim it was very bizarre to come to Bonn and announce an embargo against an aide to prime minister Brian Mulroney of Canada they had to expect some darts to be thrown at them for that it is on the Issue of the space based defence that the United states skilfully avoided a noisy a month american officials favored seeking a firm but when great Britain and France raised questions about the pro Shultz and Robert Mcfear the National Security urged a slower clash avoided As a american and West Ern european officials Rea Gan concentrated on giving Assur ances that he would consult with the that he would not deploy a space based defence system with out trying to negotiating an agree ment about it with the soviet and that he would balance develop ment of both offensive and defence by giving these Rea Gan avoided a clash Over his pro Gram and won interest from both West Germany and Britain in potentially High technology american military the italians were less and France has said that it will not take part at some europeans suggested that Mitterrand might have decided to take on 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