Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1915 — Large Shipment of Gold to This County In Battleship. [ARTICLE]

Large Shipment of Gold to This County In Battleship.

A special train carrying $52,000,000 worth of gold and securities which had been shipped by the Bank of England from London by way of Halifax and Novo Scotia to New York arrived Wednesday. Of the total shipment, $35,000,000 was in gold and weighed about 75 tons. It is said to be the largest shipment of gold ever sent across the Atlantic in one vessel. The British battleship which carried the money was conveyed cut of the war zone by a cruiser and a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers. The cost of transferring the money from London to New York is estimated at $250,000.