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Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 7: November 13, 1925 So it was arranged. The monks next day pulled up a agstone in the court yard of their monastery. A bag filled with gold, platinum and precious jew els to the value of half a million dol lars was handed to one of the brothers entrusted with the mission of crossing the border. Their ying friend called for him, and the pair set out. No sooner had they left the monastery than a company of soldiers appeared. Thirty-five monks were placed under arrest and started on the road to exile in Siberia. Their friend was a mem ber of the secret police. Last year Moscow bought five hun dred new machines from Herr Fokker, who after the Armistice transferred his factories to his native Holland. A hundred training planes were also pur chased in France, and the Soviet sent a large mission to Paris to pass upon the machines; The mission included iers and girls - the beauties which the Soviet apparently employs in large numbers. They were very popular in Paris. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.