PRECIOUS METALS IN TOKIO BAY
TOKIO, April 7. As a result of a tip hy a geisha girl, a cache of two truckloads of precious metals, believed to he worth 2,000,000,000 dollars, has heen located in mud in Tokio Bay. A labourer who indicated the hiding-place told the Americans that he and other la"bourers dumped the metals from the dock late in Jidy, 1945, under the direction of Japanese army officers, who warned them that their lives would he forfeited if they talked. It is estimated that it will take several days to recover the ingots.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1946, Page 8
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