GOODWIN SANDS TREASURE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 162, 5 April 1921, Page 5

GOODWIN SANDS TREASURE

A PLAN OF SALVAGE

Before long it is probable that the Goodwin Sands, so ® u , c . h , with" mariners, will be dotted ovci with HeSurUoekors. Hidden in the sands and within a few square miles, is be accumulation of centuries of shipp m disasters. The treasure thus concealed, io worth many millions of pounds. According to a statement made recently *.y Lord Headley, tho Goodwin Sands problem is not! a "wild-ca. reheme. Indeed, it is far more sound than many a mining proposition, because tlin treasure is really there. The statement was made by J .ora Headlev in his presidential address to the Society of Engineers, at Burlington schemes to recover the treasure, ho said, had been turned down, but be thought it possible to sink a big floatingl concrete tower in Trinity Bay, and to run tunnels from this base of operations in any direction. Bering would prcWfly reveal the presence of many an old craft, and tho next question would be to arrange for rapid tunnelling. A number of other fascinating topics were dealt with by Lord Headley.' Modern science, ho said, had marched with deadly effect in the matter of the destruction of human life in time of war, and it mick.t wel) be argued that in the future, when the dogs of war, in tho shape of harnessed electrons, were let loose, not a single human being would survive on any battlefield. A general officer sitting at his comfortable desk in the War Office might touch a button and release destructivs agencies capable of sweeping hundreds of square miles, and depriving of existence every living creature thereon. Lord Headley is one of our greatwt engineering authorities. He has been engaged for some years in foreshore protection work in England and Ireland, and ie tho author of many publications on engineering subjects.