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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1046,
Treasure Hunt Finds
Skeleton Of Diver QUEENS
MIAMI, APRIL 22.
IN HIS TREASURE HUNT FOR $30,000,000 IN AZTEC GOLD, WHICH HE BELIEVES IS SUNK IN THE SPANISH GALLEON "SANTA ROSA,” IRWIN A. WILLIAMSON HAS ARMED HIS EXPEDITION AGAINST RACKETEERS, HE DISCLOSED TODAY. THE 42-YEAR-OLD LEADER OF THE TROVE QUEST HINTED THAT HIS DEFENSE ARMORY INCLUDES A NEW SECRET WEAPON HE IS TESTING FOR AN ARMAMENTS FIRM.
Sealed in a coral tomb the "Santa Rosa" lies in 146 feet of water off Florida Keys where it foundered in 1520.
"So far we have cul' about 27 inches into the thick coral crust which envelopes the wreck com- pletely, except for a small jagged edge opening." Willlarn- non said.
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Prophecy Of Success For India Mission
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Washington, April 22,
Colonel Drew Moscow Fire
London, Apr. 22. Colonel George A. Drew, pre- mier of Ontario, was today ac- cused by the Soviet radio com- mentator, Lozevaky, of demand- ing war against the Soviet Union.
In an English language broad- cast from Moscow, Lozovsky said that Colonel Drew had told an audience at Chatham, On- tario, to "start fighting the So- viet Union" and had demanded economic sanctions and a block- "The hole is about the size of
ade against Russin,
"The name of the Colonel was in hunchback position. Dr. Haridas Muzumdar of
no one in Europe Once we cut it back enough to Bombay. Indian-Hindu sociolo-known to permit the passage of divers and gist and Biographer of Gandhi, during the war," said Lozovsky, he tools, we should not have too addressing the Washington So- "but now, after the war,
heaven and earth to much difficulty in getting into ciety of Friends today, predict- moves
through the wreck to find if the gold ised full success for the British make himself known
He is convinced still there as I think it is."
Cabinet mission in India.
the world. Williamson said that a huge
his He declared "Out of the nego- that he has been elected to save jewfish had twice driven
come a United the world.
"Like Joan of Arc, he has crew of three divers up from the tiations will styrian depths and he reported States of India. free and inde-
up his A few "minor" brushes with pendent and with a special treaty visions. He has heard myster-
for relations with the British ious voices. He lifts octopi and man-cating sharks,
Empire." He said that the fu- hands and urgen war against ture of India "may not remain the Soviet Union, unless this Common detested power submits to Bri- within the British
tain and America.
"If Colonel Drew were better informed he would know that Banctions, economic
Skeleton Found The expedition has discover ed the skull and primitive hel-wealth of Nations" but he said AT 230 met of an early American deep he believed India would profit if sen diver, whose skeleton was she remained allied with the found near the wreck.
British Nations."
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Joseph Summers, of the WII- liamson expedition, said divers had found dozens of, aunken and craft hetween Key West Cuba, and that the latest dia- back to about covery dated 1700.
He termed Prime Minister Attlee's statement of policy to ward India as the "Arst declara- tion of any British Government that India could-accept as mean- ing what it said." He added Commenting on the fate of "The United States heretofore the dead diver, Suramers said, has been the only nation whose There are two curious things Government could be relied up about it. First, the helmet had on to carry-out-pledges," and no airlines or any provision for gave the Philippines as an ex- air except what was in the hel-ample", Associated Press, met. Second, the skeleton was found in almost 100 feet water, and how he got down that deep without a pressure suit la Bomething we'll never know." Associated Press.
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and armed intervention were all problems, "prompted by his on- Re-xiettes in connection with the tried against the Soviet
supply of coal from the Ruhr public after the first war,
"Reactionaries put their hands and over the strikes in the
the fire ng nalevely United States coal industry." into
M. Paul added that Edward Colonel, Drew doce today and
Morawski, the Polish President, they burned their fingera."
a speech at Chatham, had invited him to go to War- (In early this month, Colonel Drew saw, "to study on the spot the said that the danger of totali-conditions in which Poland could tarianiam was greater in Europe contribute to supplying coal to than ever before, and called for France.
a policy of "non-appeasement"). -Reuter.
Telescopic Swim Sults
London, Apr. 22.
50,000 Palestinan Government Women will be able to buy workers for increased wages telescopic sivim and sun suits broadened yesterday Warsaw. April 22. Representatives of Poland's sympathy" walk out of Trang again this summer. A few are
Railways employees. in the shops already,
Oiled nylon is one of the now six political parties and social jordan and religious groups have form-There was no immediate indica-i
Polish league to fight tion to whether railway ser- materials used, and plastic trims ed "a
many suits.. racial hatred" and afford what vices had been suspended.
Everything is gay. There are A communique issued by the over protection possible to the
general committee of the Gov-auits of satin, checked taffeta, dwindling Jewish population,
The organization's president,ernment strikers reported that cotton jungle prints and other Monsignor Juliusz Gorecko, Cat-only 18 clerks had returned to brilliant designs
Telescope suits it almost that anti-their jobs. in response to an 'holic leader, saya Semitism in Poland is a hang- official plea. The general strike every figure. The telescoping is of postal service employees en done with puro rubber threads over from the German occupa- tion. He said that most of the tered its twelfth day yesterday. which draw the material to
The strike of government work-gether rather like emociting.
Prices are from 15a. to about killings of Jews, of whom there have been 450 known slayingsers is six days old. Associated,
25s. the suit. in the last 12 months, are at- tributed to bands of NSZ which the formerly known as National Armed Forecs origin- ally formed to oppose the Nazi invaders. The NSZ lately turn- Led there fire against Jewish- Polish politicians Russlan sol- diery and Communists.
were
Poland's Jewish population is
at present 86,000. It was once:
-Press.
Nazis Spent Fortune On U.S. Propaganda
Nuornberg, April 22.
3,600,000 but the Nazis report-Nasi Gormany financed a $1,000,000 propaganda cam-
edly wiped out over 3,000,000 and tens of thousands have flod the country.-Associated Press.
The Navy Likes Australia
Canberra, April 22. More than 2,250 Royal Navy men had applied for discharge in Australia, a Ministry of Post- war Reconstruction bulletin re. vealed today.
paign in the United States during the two years bo- fore Pearl Harbour by expropriating inheritances of Dr. Haribort van German nationals, according to Strempel, former First Secretary of the German Em- bassy in Washington.
The story of German attempts to sway American opinion was related by Strempel in a 44-page interrogation submitted in part by the American prosecution at the war crimes trial
Strempel said the German of the war and, if Hitler would library of information in New win the war in Europe, it would York alone received-3600,000 at be of great benefit for American the behest of former Foreign economics in general and their Minister Joachim von Ribben-business in particular."
Hollywood Anglo trop and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
Seven hundred R.N. men had
He said Westrick, could help nlready been discharged here.
British or Allled ex-service- He said he personally paid the prominent businessmen through men getting in Australia would library's public relations counsel, unfreezing their blocked credits bo entitled to a wide range of George Sylvester Viereck, "be in Germany.
The former diplomat said social service, as wall as reha- tween $70,000 and $100,000" in
on pro-Viereck "tried to givo
me the hilitation benote, the bulletin the period to carry
paganda activities;
impression that he had good te said.
lations with a number of nona- tors and congressmen.
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Lord Lawrence Reads The Lesson
Srinagar, Kashmir, Apr. 22. 74- Lord Pethick Lawrence, year-old Secretary of State, for India, read the lesson at this morning's Easter Day service at All Saints Church here,
Sir Stafford Cripps, Presid- ent of the Board of Trado, and Lord of the Admiralty--the Mr. A. V. Alexander, the First other members of the British Cabinet Mission to India also attended the service.
short Easter recess
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Heap Street, Manchester 7. with Indian leaders of the future
England. constitution of India.-Reuter.
Cable Address: Harbinger,
Easter In Moscow
Moscow, Apr. 22.
Several thousand worshippers filled Moscow Cathedral and
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Asked if the Nazi Government Wallace in a speech here naid Tropical Islands, treasure, as others brought to the Comnever kept on exact accounting."
migration A German business man, Dr. tried to influence Hollywood"The people of the United Agents:——— Pirates too, monwealth andor a
Gerhardt Alois Westrick, whose movies, ho aald the Embassy States are continually being unwit visit to the United States once orice was approached by a misinformed, perhaps
E. & A. S. 5. Co., Ltd. TOSCANINI RETURNS created publicity for his Ameri-producer interested in bringing tingly, by the American press
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To-added that the people were New York, Apr. 22. ed by Strompel as "'n special en-horrors of war."
aftor world
HOOVER LEAVES "He was a close friend of misinformed also Arturo Toscanini, 79, famed voy of Ribbentrop."
From conversations with German film actress, who pre-war No. 1 and se a result "we
Cairo, Apr. 22. symphony conductor who left
Horbert Hoover, special fobd his native Italy in 1908 after Westrick at the German Em-sented him to the Embassy, could very well have lost our
was "tober hio namo. I don't think he good luck in having President investigator for President Tr opposing the Fascist regime and bassy, Strempel said he learned Strempol said. "I don't remem-national life except for very refusing to play the Fascist an- the former's mission
Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins to man, left by air yesterday fo thom, left hore by plane today use his personal relations with was of German extraction."
He said the Embassy rejected get over their misalon to Rus- India. Hoover plans to mabek en route to Milan where he will Influential American business
Associated Press. re-open the La Scala
lives."Associated Press. opora men that they should engage in the movie project as hot well, sin, thereby saving millions of a stop en route at Bagdad- house-Associated Prose. propaganda to keep America out founded."--Associated Press.
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