TREASURE SEARCH
EMPEROR MAXIMILLIAN’S
WEALTH
LONDON, November 15. Scarcely a mouth goes by without reports of expeditions fitted out to recover lost treasure. One of the most recent is to attempt to salvage the jewels and bullion that once belonged to the Emperor Maximillian of Mexico. A brother of the Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, he accepted the Crown of Mexico in 1864, and after a stormy three years was betrayed to his enemies and l shot. * . >ii-- •'» The leaderr,of- the. revolt waxf.Presi-j dent Diaz, who confiscated the collec-, tion of bullion and jewels belonging to the late Emperor and hi s Empress. Alter a long dictatorship, revolution compelled President Diaz to resign in 1911, and the story goes that before he left the country he secretly sent the Maximillian treasures away on a ship named the Merida.
A s the result of a collision the Merida sank off Cape Henry, anj the expedition hopes to discover the wreck. A curious turn in the adventure was the declaration of a London fishmonger that lie was the son and heir of the ill-fated Habsburg, and would lay claim to any portion of his father’s estate that was recovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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197TREASURE SEARCH Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1932, Page 7
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