THE EGYPT’S GOLD
—■■ ;■ • LOCATED BY SALVAGERS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 2. The “Artiglio” divers succeeded yesterday in opening the sunken liner bullion, room. As far as -they were able to see, there is bullion valued at -one million sterling therein. It should be possible to raise it without much difficulty. Work was again impossible to-day, however. The opening of the “Egypt’s” bullion room achieved, the most difficult part of three years’ work, which has been so full of hitherto-uhsolved problems and unknown perils, it is unlikely that any underwater work comparable thereto will ever be done again. The divers throughout the summer of 1929 fruitlessly ..searched for the sunken wreck. Last year the old “Artiglio” an<f the “Raffio” located and identified the “Eg(ypt,” bub both of these salvagers themselves now lie at the bottom of the sea. The “Artiglio” was sunk by an explosion on a munition ship, upon which she was working in Quiheron Bay. The ‘Raffio” capsized at Gurnsey while working on a wreck in April.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1931, Page 3
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171THE EGYPT’S GOLD Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1931, Page 3
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