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AFTER EIGHT YEARS. FROM SUNKEN STEAMER EGYPT. DIPLLOM AT 1C BAG CONTENTS. (Official Wireless.) (Received this uav at 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 2. As a result of salvage operations on tlie steamship Egypt, sunk alter a collision with a French steamer in the Bay of Biscay in 1922, the Foreign Office has received the contents ol a diplomatic bag found in the captain’s sate and which was brought to the surface recently and conveyed to Brest. The documents, which lay at a depth of -100 fathoms for 8 years, are coated with rust and are still sodden from damp air in the safe, hut many of them are. still legible, and the seals are intact. They include official despatches and other communications to the Rritiesh diplomatic representatives at many posts abroad.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1930, Page 5
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