TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1926.
SUNKEN GOLD.........‚
TREASURES OF THE. DEEP SEAS.
SALVAGE OPERATIONS.
Will the Union des Entreprises Sousmarines succeed. in its great attempt to salve the treasure on board the P & "0. mall-boat "Egypt, sunk in sixty fathoms of water off Ushant after a collision with the French ... "Selno??" More than a million in gold and silver lies in her streng-room- and has fain there these last three years.
Diving for the treasure in sunken ships on the floor of the sea is a strange and fantastically difficult undertaking (says Carleton Ashavelt,. i the "Sunday Chronicle"). The French salvage Concern which has contracted to make the attempt on the "Egypt' possesses accurate charts of the wreck's. Bensione all the lusest. scientific and engineering appli-: arces, a staff of intrepid divers,. specially equipped ships-and yeu the success of its treasure hunt is by no means certain.
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The Poughkeepsie institution boasts of many fine riders. Miss. Betty Palmor, in considered the must skilful, especially over the hedges.
IN ROTTING HULKS.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
ASYLUM CASE.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE
PROVED.
ACCUSED SENT TO TRIBON..
SPEND $30,000,000.
THE WANT TO DRY THE TEARS OF THE WORLD."
TOBACCO KING'S. KIGMES.
Groat vage schemes and high helping suffering
The case agninab two Chinese who were charged with a confidenla spfracy to obtain the belongings of humanity are forming in the mind of sixteen-year-olt "Doria. Dake,. a patient at the Lunatie Asylum, richest girl in the wooht, who Was erchuudent the Controllerite about £80,000,000 ander Magistracy yesterday when both the will of her late father, the birs deformlands were sent to prison. Hum American tobacco king, says
"The People." The defehen pat forward by Mr. M. W. Lo on behalf of the first defendant was that he had beeû med as
foul by, the second Irfendat, the ward böy,
Six weeks' hard labour was im- sext on the Erst defentiant, The cond defendant was sentenced to Granonthe bird labour.
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sounds like a fairy tale," said Miss Duke, when told that, the famcont at her command Would
reach thirty millions sterling. never imagined that any one person. rould command: so mucli nioney, and sure I do not know how E shalt handle it."
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She added that her fist journeys when everything is scikled would be to England " have heard a
LONDON MYSTERY. lot about the wonders of London,
MMY GIRL FROM PARIS DISAPPEARS.
but have never been there. I want" to go, to see the Court of the King wul to sto something of the war- jderful society, you have over there,”
AN ENGLISH HUSBAND? When it was suggestext that, like | so many other American girls of great wealth, she might find a Of at the mysteries of missing husband in English society, she giris-which have been so frequenblushed, smiled and rotorted;
AFFER · BRIDE IN A TAXI
the abbey. und
The sew plays quieer tricks with the broken vessels which sink into Its green depths burdened with w ton or two or gold and silver, and The a few fortunes in jewels. gigantic pressures of the water erushes the timber and steel
a ly-none is so intrigning as that Phat hadn't'ccured to me, and bones; currents and eddles carry
Ef Derise Bawas Shadwell, or don't know thas it appeals to me. the wreckage far from the spot
whom the police of Londom and like most girls, I have my idens| where it disappeared; rocks rolf
Faris are seching,
Land my ideale,. I attich greatest down upon from the sub-
She is an extremely pretty girl, importance to terranean mountains, the Alps fortune which has apparently. Funder Beence from the Duke of and the Himalayas of the deep fallen from the skies.
Argyll have hurted the treasure. shy and delicately refined in many thing else matters. I would not the bulk of it still aludes the grasper quietly, almost dowdily, dresse a muna poverly stand in the way geas: mud engulfs it, and clay
et: she speaks French like a nu- love were there with us. silts over it.
To-day remarkable dixing | live, but rittle and broken English, "But don't ran away with the Salvage operations, undertaken British Government. have rend copper plates and hoops, en-Landon,
Tensy victim for the fortune.hunter. She recently came. from Purism not built that way. I hope T the total wealth sunk in ships offbeath the surface; and specially and disappened after a taxi-dive covered a considerable portion of the diver to work 120 feet the Irish coast during the war. fed up ships with giant other treasure lies in that perti-Krapnels and the treasure seeker.from hose in Kensington to cular stretch of sea-in rotting But the bulk of the ocean hoardse efen am in Victoria, where balks which went down in the will never be reached until some picked up her hugange. The Napoleonic Wars, and earlier still, wonderful mechanism or appara-hee are anxions that the when Spain warred with England tus is devised, allowing men to who drove her should come on the high seas.
explore the sea-bed and work on it forward to give evidence. at depths for exceeding those divers which submarines and reach to-day.
BEYOND HUMAN REACH.
That is why, of the limitable private syndicates and the equipment, reinforced with steel-and she has disappeared in files that I am going to prove narj
recovered to date.
bed in the track of the well-worn golden treasures lying on the sea seaways, within reach of divers with up-to-date equipment. only an infinitesimal portion has been The larger portion of the ocean treasures Hes beyond the ranch of man-at least, so far as we can tell bo-day. It has been
One of the greatest of the estimated that gold, silver, and known trensure ships is that jewels to the total amount of ten which contained the fabulous col thousand millions of pounds are ection of jewels belonging to the scattered over the floor of the sex-Emperor Maximilian at depths of 150 fathoms and more depths. which would crush a diver like an egg-shelf under steam hammer and flatten oven a giant armour-plated submarine like a lemon under the squeezer
Of the treasure lying well within the reach of modern mun,
Mexico. The krensure ship. foundered on its way to Europe, and its precise whereabouts is as much a mystery as is the spot where the hoard of Montezuma lies buried.
The wealth of she "Laurentic" and the "Lutine" are as nothing an aurifle beyond the safe divingcompared to the aggregate value limit, an aggregate of more than £1,000,000,000 has actually been charted from authentic records by one big salyage concern. This
lies mighty board
of the gold, silver, statuary and other valuables strewn over the rocky bottom of Navarino Bay'in, the skeletons.of the 63 ships of scattered the Turkish Fleet. sent to the around three oceans, and dates bottom by
the allied English, from the wrecks of the Armada French and Russian Fleet h years and the great days of the century ago. baccaneers, to the last month of It was in 1827 that the Turks... the German U-boat operations. warned that Russia, France, and More than a hundred expedi-England had formed a coalition bions. are known to-day to be to drive them out of Greece, actively working in the vicinity of stripped the country bare of its treasure ships sunk in the portable wealth and embarked na Pacific. Indian and Atlantic their fleet. Ibrahim Pasha, the oceans. Are they mere optimists? Turkish Admiral, took refuge in Some are, but every year an, up-Navarino Bay on the south-west preciable amount of treasure is const of Grecce on hearing that recovered from the bottom of the the combined fleet of the Allies ocean and in the majority of
were in pursuit, and there the cases the world hears nothing British Admiral Codrington sur- about it. Only some bold specula-prised him at anchor and sunk tor, salvage expert. or intrepid his entire fleet. diver comes home with a small
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Ibrahim Pasha's records prove that his flagship alone contained some £5,000,000 in gold and jewels; and in the manuscripts left by Chevalier Raoul de Ramon, commander of the French flagship "Sirene" at Navarino, is
note from the papers of Monharem Bay, giving the. amount of money for expenses and food of the army in charge of the two Turkish Fleet com- manders.
Two millions of dollars they had, and "to these there must be added as much again......1, too, had sent me by Hassan 20 large bags of money and 10,000 gold ducats. Together with what. I had before, it amounts to "50 money bags, and 30,000 gold pieces of all kinds."
DORIS REID,
From 23-12-0 a 'wock as a clerk to a guarantee of £20,000 a yuur is the rise of Doris Reid, a Canadian woman, 'n private life Mrs, John Unkley. She in the highest priced dress designer in America.
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shall know how to spend my dollars a good cause, but I shall know how to take care of them."
Miss Dyke is not content to see
x-nly one side of life, for she insists that when she reaches England
Eshe ...will! Hee the other side.
of the picture..
The second daughter of Biglish consular official and al
" want to see the squlid hovels French mother, Denise has lived
of the East End, she said. "E in Paris with her father and mother have heard much of your shims well. and four sisters since her birth the awful Afferings of the sun seventeen years ago, and she wil
davellers. I would like to faire a her sister were givented at a con-ttle amshine into those dark and wank, Some days ago she was some alleys, but I don't quite taken from schoo, and sent to know yet how it is to be done. Ei pland for the winter, in the hope
"I am taking the advice of sound
that the English country wir mightides and hope to do something,
I strengthen They and bring a rosy
"Carnegie spent his great weltly. ush to her pale checks.
[well, and others, have done Deuely She came to Englund in the well, but somehow I do not charge of a King's Messenger, think they have quite succeeded in front of her family, who left herachieving anything really big in at a house in Fairlight, Hastings, the way of drying up the tears of where her grandmother ad anntthe world. I want to do that, and Five There she spent the week1 pray that God may guide me esel.
right.
Last Tuesday she was brought
IT IS TERRIBLE?''
to London by the aunt, and both "It is terrible to think of ull stayed as the guests of Mr. Douglas the sorrow and suffering in the Peghill, ex-M.P. For Stoke-on-world, but I realise that it is diffi Trink. It was intended that after to decide of what is best, be- wards they would go to a village cause, even with thirty millions, it neme Alton, Hampshire, where will be impossible to do more than |Denise why to spend the winter brighten one corner of the world [with another sand,
unin very Hittle corner at that,
On Friday afternoon, when Mrs. [Colti) and the ant rehired from bazaar, they learned, to their disney, that the gid had gone eaving behind a letter in which she saide-
Just where that comer is going | to be 1 cannot say, but I am ever keen to get busy, axl } think I will begin with the children, for am a great believer in bringing sum shine into the lives of the young.
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[buay life." The distancted; women af once telephoned another aunt at St. Gorgels-g., S.W., where Denise'a i luggage bad been taken in the morning, and learned that the girl I driven up in tax inte on Friday afternoan." She collected
her luggage and drove away to k unknown destination.
It is possible that Denise caught - the bowl train for Paris yesterday mabing, and made straight for the coavent in Paris, where she bos bee with her, slafers. the left a note to the sunt in Ht. George's- sq, saying she could not stand idleness away from school, and that she was anxious to get back
Per E. & A. 6.6."St. Albans on Jan. 9: Mies H. D. Webb, Several attempts have been Miss M. Wood, Mr and Mrs R. made to get at this wealth, but so Watson, Mr Leong Moon Ches, far only a few pieces of tarnished Lt. F. C.. Husband Clutton, Mr and her sisters, gold and silver plate have been Mrs Yue H. Jackson, Mr Young fished up from the rocky bottom of the bay
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