Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1917 — BELGIAN GEMS SOLD IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

BELGIAN GEMS SOLD IN NEW YORK.

It is said that quite recently a number of diamonds have been put on the market at Amsterdam, London and New York which there is very good reason to believe have come from Germany, and in all probability form part of the looting of Belgium and France. The London Horologlcal Journal describes them as being cut in a manner which made it clear that they once formed part of old jewelry. In many instances old jewelry has been offered for sale under circumstapces which leave little room for doubt that it came from provinces occupied by German troops. Just now on the Continent a lot of old jewelry is being offered for sale. It fS~ not all loot; some of it represents the sacrifices which the people of France and Belgium have been obliged to make. Some of it has found its way into the market trom Russia. Roumanla and eastern Europe.