TO RETRIEVE TREASURE
ITALIANS’ PLAN SEARCH FOR LINER’S BULLION (United Service) LONDON, Saturday. A new attempt is being made by an Italian company to salve the £1,000,000 worth of bullion sunk off the French coast between Brest and Ushant in the P. and O. liner Egypt in 1922. The latest diving apparatus is being used. This enables the divers to work for several hours at a depth of 200 fathoms. Several previous attempts by a French company, with the aid of German dive) s. have been made to recover the Egypt's valuable cargo. The ship carried £829,000 worth of gold ingots and £250,000 in sil-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 9
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105TO RETRIEVE TREASURE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 9
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