JESUIT TREASURE
SEARCH IN BOLIVIA BRITISH SYNDICATE HOPEFUL. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BUENOS AIRES, December 13. (Received December 14, at 8.45 a.m.) Professor Edgar Sanders,’ chief of the British exploration syndicate which is searching for the Jesuit treasure in Bolivia, lias sailed for England for the purpose of raising another £30,000 for the purchase of pumping machinery and other equipment. He said: “The treasure undubtedly exists, though perhaps it does not total £10,000,000, as reported. In the course of our investigations wo discovered 280 skeletons, presumably those of peons, who were employed in carrying tho treasure to the biding place. Most of them had evidently been poisoned, while others had been- beaten to death, their bones being broken.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20049, 14 December 1928, Page 9
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117JESUIT TREASURE Evening Star, Issue 20049, 14 December 1928, Page 9
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