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TREASURE TROVE TALK BOOK .WITHDRAWN. LONDON, November 18. The amazing attempt, to ii.cn i... credit for salving the Laurentic’s gold has been exposed by Captain Damant, who was in charge of the operations, and has resulted, says the “Daily Sketch,” in the withdrawal from circulation of Lieutenant G. Williams’s book, “Diving for Treasure.” Lieutenant Williams, who was one of the leaders of Lieutenant Kealey’s unsuccessful treasure-hunting expedition to the Cocos Islands, relates how he was towed at full speed in a diving suit for seven miles behind a salvage vessel, which had not time to haul himup from the Laurentio when a German submarine disturbed operations. Captain Damant protests that this and other stories are obvious absurdities, and declares that Lieutenant Williams was only a wireless operator, that he was never a naval officer, and had no connection with diving.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 9
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143A TALL YARN New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 9
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