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Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1924, Page 3

PFM.ARKAIU.IO DIKCOY FRY. All the fish in the world are not in the sea, according to Paris advice which makes the startling announcement that there are lisli 200 and Oil feet beneath the sands of the .Sahara. That is the extraordinary discovery made hv the experiments of sinking artesian wells at various points m the North African waste with a view to possible irrigation. Waters drawn from great depths were found to contain small crabs, fish, and shellfish, all alive. , , The discovery is proving an absolute puzzle, no theory so far, seeming entirely satisfactory. It has been possible usually to explain the presence of fish and shellfish in underground waters says “ Shipping and Engineering, by the fact that they were locked up during some primeval catalvsm. These fishes adapt themselves gradually to new conditions, but, living in darkness, arc always blind entirely or possess special optical apparatus suitable to darkness. Those found underneath the Sahara belong to a species inhabiting the lakes of Palestine. Shafts sunk during the past few years in the • aliara prove there are large sheets of water everywhere. Fish found non prompt the belief that there is a vast underground sea densely inhabited,