ROMMEL'S HIDDEN TREASURE VANISHED
A 10,000,000,900 lira (more tlian 44,000,000 dollars) desert army koard of General Field Marshal Erwin Bornmel, Hitler's Afrika Korps. commander, has vanished from a sand dune in Tunisia. The evening paper, Milan Sera, quoted a returned Italian prisoner. as saying that when the landing of Allied troops in Tunisia was imminent, he was kble to follow elosely a hasty job being done by German soldiers before they retrcated and eventually abandoned African shores. They were liiding the Afrika Korps eash in a gasoline tank. Briving to the desert, they stopped 1 near a windmill and buried the tank j under a sand dune. j The Italian, Vincezo Lana of Verona, ' later was taken prisoner by the British, and was rcpatriated at the end of the war. " Baek in Verona, he revealed his secret to his friends, Giulio Milani and .Ottorino Privieri. The newspapers reported that, having obtained permission to land in Tunisia, they left by air with French offieials. But on arrival in Tunisia they found the treasure had been snatched.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1947, Page 2
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