NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1929, Page 8

NEWS BY MAIL.

CAR RAIDS SEQUEL. LONDON, June 17. Three men are in custody and 12 motor cars ih possession of the police following- intensive inquiries by Scotland Yard in connection with the 16 raid by mofor-bandits in stolen cars in the last three! months. The detectives believe that they have traced the ringleaders of an expert gang. The three men were taken into custody-'Tast week on -minor charges. . Meii who are alleged to have been their associates had been shadowed for some days. The 12 cars’are at Hackley, E., Police Station, and Scotland Yard is anxious to trace their owners. The cars were recovered from garages in different parts of'London and the majority are believed'to'have been stolen. Supt. Cornish turned his attention to garages owing to the fact that few of the cars used by motor-bandits were abandoned afterwards. TREASURE SHIP MYSTERY. BREST, (Finistcre), June 16. The Maritime Prefecture here lias issued an order to navigators to avoid carefully the region in which the tug-. Rosto put to. sea to-day to map out the area in which the wreck of the P. and O. liner Egypt is supposed to lie. The Egypt was sunk in 1922 in a collsion about 28 miles off the Finistere coast, with the French steamer Seine, 37 lives being lost. It contained £839,000 in gold bars and £230,000 in silver ingots consigned to the Egyptian Treasury.' The wreck lies 360 feet deep. The problem of recovering the treasure lies in locating the wreck. Bouys are being moored to mark out the three positions in which t 1 Egypt is supposed to rest, and the next step will be to sweep the rocky bottom, until the divers are able to go (..own and maki certain that they really are faced by the liner’s skeleton. CAR BLACK LIST. ROME; June 17. The Italian Automobile Club, to check the growing importation of foreign, and especially American, motorcars, proposes to publish the names and addresses of all purchasers of such cars. The suggestion is a direct consequence of the increased American customs tariff. The newspapers applaud the measure calling, it “a proscription list for bad Italians.” They point out the anomalous situation that whereas Italy produces excellent motor-cars —as proved by the fact that more than 50 per cent, of the Italian production is sold rbroad—many Italians seem to prefer foreign tears.