AFTER EIGHT YEARS.
DOCUMENTS RECOVERED. LAY AT BOTTOM OP SEA. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 2. As a result of salvage operations on the steamship Egypt, which was sunk after a collision with a French steamer in the Bay of Biscay in 1922, the Foreign Office has received the contents of a diplomatic bag found in the captain’s safe and which was brought to the surface recently and conveyed to Brest. The documents, which lay at a depth of 400 fathoms for eight years, are coated with rust, and are still sodden from the damp air in the safe, but many of them are still legible and the seals are intact. They include official despatches and other communications to the British diplomatic representatives in manj posts abroad
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18140, 3 October 1930, Page 8
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126AFTER EIGHT YEARS. Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18140, 3 October 1930, Page 8
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