Part
of a letter bearing a hand-written list of gold bars
plundered by the Japanese Golden Lily during WW11 and
stashed on the Philippines. The first item shows a quantity of 5000 x 56 kilogram bars that
originated in Sumatra.
Others bars came from Cambodia and Siam.
Collectively, these amounted to 3148 metric
tonnes of bullion with a value of approximately $3
billion
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