THE CROWN JEWELS.
, The Crown jewels arc again to' bo sees i .at the Tower of London alter anabsenco ; ' ; of some ten months. Tho changes .which • 1 have been made in the Wakefield'Tower''' s ' should be sufficient,to place the.regalia ';) beyond all possibility of theft. • The-glass I case which immediately encloses (ho i jewels is entirely cbvoreil with a metal : ! shield, the upper portion of which'is com- i posed of riveted steel sheets, while the room is equipped with, burglar-foiling "de- ■. vices which would defy anything short of .1 dynamite. The grill through which sight'- "! seers ' gaze upon the-Culiinan diamond is 1 manufactured of ■tcmrsored stcel : h«r<v «»t closer together than "was the case with I the previous'enclosure. . 1 tin giasv jo i covered with steel casing at "a moment's i notico.by the pressure'of a button. Gongs ! which.'are placed in different inairte. of I tho Tower can be set clanging "by the ( slightest pressure being put on- the bars, 1 and the sanio motive power will eircctu- ■'< ally close the massive metal doors of the J jewel room upon everybody at once. . . i
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 24 December 1910, Page 11
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182THE CROWN JEWELS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 24 December 1910, Page 11
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