Gold shipped from the Banque Nationale on the U.S.S. Machias
Gold was removed from the bank's vaults at Port-au-Prince on 17 December 1914 and transported to New York aboard the U.S.S. Machias.


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Gold was removed from the bank's vaults at Port-au-Prince on 17 December 1914 and transported to New York aboard the U.S.S. Machias.
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The Secretary of State to the Minister of Haiti, December 31, 1914, File No. 838.516/27, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Document 583.
Minister Bailly-Blanchard to the Secretary of State, December 30, 1914, File No. 838.516/55, enclosing the Haitian Department of Foreign Relations note verbale, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Document 581.
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