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GENERAL FORGE PRODUCTS CO. OF CHINA

SHANGHAI

Manufacturers of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

"MYSTERY" GOLD,

Unsolved Riddle of La

Lutine.

An estimate has been misdo that there is still over £1,000,000 in gold bullion lying in the sande

of the Vlieland Channel, off the

Contrance to the Zuider Zoo,

BOLTS, NUTS, RIVETS, DOG SPIKES, FORGINGS. Etc. where the old treasure frigate.

of every description and size.

Can be supplied according to BRITISH STANDARD - SPECIFICATIONS

in small or large quantities.

Delivery within two to three weeks. Samples and prices may be had on application to

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

Sole Agents

Apply Import Dept.

Telephone 781 Central. St. George's Building

YOUR BATH WILL BE FRAGRANTLY REFRESHING IF YOU USE-

DUBARRY'S

'RENOWNED BATH SALTS and TABLETS and

BATH SOAP

New Stacks just received

La Lutine, was wrecked. It is the bolt of the old Jutine which hang in the underwriting room at Lloyde.

This computation is worked fout by Mr. C. Stansfeld Hicks, In the White Star Magazina. The frigate, it is recalled, suited from Yarmouth on October 17,. 1799. with a great treasure on board What actually happened after (sho sailed is still one of the most

profound mystories of the sа2.

Newspaper accounts stated that she was freighted with between 116 and 3 million pounds sterling in gold and coin for English troops in Holland, Ir was even said that the Dutch Crown jewels were on board; having been rezet in London.

OUT OF HER COURSE. "The archives of the Admiralty only serve to add to the myatory. In them La Lutino (a 3-gun frigate) is stated as boing andor directions to sail to the River Elbe for Hamburg, and that tho. treasure on board was not the property of the Government but holonged to Landon merchants.

What she should be doing, evon in had wonther, so far out of her purse, is an absolute mystory.

It was estimated that up to the and of 1801, Dutch fishermen had

IHE COLONIAL DISPENSARY cured about £85.000 worth of

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Tol. Central No. 1877,

Tol. Contral No. 1877. -

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Orchestral and Vocal Selections from

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Introducing: Excerpt,

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the treasure in 'gold bars and Spanish, French and English coins. Various unsuccessful at- tempts had beari made since then to salve the treasure.

"The Dutchmen concerned with Lloyds in the salvage operi ations," writes Mr. Hicks, "havn, furnished an estimato based on on all the information they havo hven able to collect.

"They say that La Lutine. when she put to sou, had pn board approximately £1,175,000 and thin the sum hitherto salved came to just short of £100,000, thus leaving treasure remaining worth over a million pounds.

"The amount originally on board can ho computed only by inference and deduction, but oven so, the evidence is in favour of the above culentations boing" approximately correct,"

THURSDAY,

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AND

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Marks.

Nos.

Pkgs.

Date of storing.

35117

57/8:

953

31,5.

7 in Mellon

29/10/20

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THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED,

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Nos.

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13.10/20

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Nos. Pligs.

Date of storing

3 buxos, Tiuplate

23/10/49

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Hongkong, 10th June, 1924,

Lot *Marks.

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