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British Treasure
Hunt Told to Quit
BY GOVERNMENT
OF ISLAND
San Jose (Costa Rica), Apr. 1.
For a second time
a British treasure hunters' expedition to Cocos Island has been ordered by the Costa Rican Government to leave the island immediately.
The Government claims that the presence of Captain Arthur on the board of directors of the expedi-; tion is contrary to the terms of the concession.
Captain Arthur commanded a previous expedition to the Island In 194, He and all the members of the expedition were detained, how ever, and transferred to Conta Rica, on the ground that they had landed on the Island without per- mission.
Police Launches Leaving The Government has issued ani order forbidding removal of the expedition's equipment.
Two police launches are leaving on Saturday to transport the CX pedition to the mainland.--Reuter.
A picture, taken at the Croydon Chief, Dr. Hansftaengi and the aerodrome, showing the Nast Press English, skating princess Cecilin The expedition is hunting for Colledge who were among the passen treasure valued at £12,000,000 salders in one of the airplanes which to have been hidden in the Cocos recently arrived at the nerodrome. Inlandé, a small group in the Pacific
some 300 miles from the const of
Central America, by eighteenth TANK
century buccaneers.
The expedition numbers 13 mem.
bers, among them being Comman- INVENTOR
der Worsley, the Antarctic explorer, and his wife. The lender' is Mr. Richard Studdert.
Captain Arthur.
cousin of
To Claim A Share
A Conta Rican colonel and ten policemen accompany the expedi- tion. They were sent to enforco the sovereignty of Costa Rica over. the island and, presumably, to claim a share of whatever trensure was found.
The "treasure ship" was the
SEEKS REDRESS
$450,000 OWING?
New York, Feb. 28. The U.S. Government recently faced the possibility of losing the fastest tank in the world unless
former Lowestoft drifter Vera- it paid its inventor U.S. $450,000
city.
ཨ ཏ ནི ཡམ ཏ ཝ བྷཏྟཏྟཏྟ
Last October the expedition was which he said was due to him.
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America's visited by President Roosevelt, whoi Walter Christie, was spending a holiday cruising outstanding builder of tanks, mean- and fishing in the neighbourhood, while nuncuncest completion of his "ying" tank capable of more than 100 miles an hour, which he will Jullor to the War department. He. will present his patents "for the last time to Harry Woodring, ass sistant Secretary of War, and will Jas the department for:
Tauber's Blackmail Charge
DIVORCED WIFE
ON TRIAL
1. Payment of about $150,000 for previons tanks and patents purchased from Christie during the last 16 years,
2. Immediate financing of the Intest "ying" tank in order to keep ft in the United States, If the government turns him down, Christle, who says he has a Vienna, Mar. 28. standing offer of $600.000 from the Richard Tauber, the famous German government and $10,000 a singer, was present to-day at the month for life from the U.S.S... trial here of his wife, Carlotta faces the alternative virtual Tauber Vanconti, for alleged bankruptcy or selling his tank to foreign country. Italy, China blackmail,
France also have made him
offers.
Frau Vanconti, who is of strik-and ing beauty, pleads not guilty.
According to the Public Prosect-The new tank, weighing 4,500 tor, Tauber married Carlotta Van-pounds, can be carried by a bomber-
behind the enemy lines and dropped: conti in Vienna in 1924. They were divorced by a Berlin court in while the plane is 10 feet off the የኒ 450 1928. and Tauber then gave his ground. Powered with wife, it is stated, £9,000 by way of horsepower supercharged motor, it has a speed of 65 miles an hour a well-furnished flat, with caterpillars and more than
alimony, jewellery and a motor-car.
1100 miles on wheels. It carries
In 1930 Frau Vanconti, accord- ing to the prosecution, asked for two or three men and mounts a 77
(millimeter field gon. further alimony, pointing out to her husband that the Berlin divorce was not legal in Austrin, and; it is declared, threatening to publish her memoirs on Tauber's private life.
Another Divorce Suit
"Give me what the war de partment spends in one year on its armies and I can make this nation the mast invulnerable in the world," the 69-year-old in- ventor said. "Ten thousand of these flying tanks would wipe Tauber then agreed to give her a out all need for an infantry, monthly allowance of £120 until The white-haired inventor, who 1940, and she agreed to a divorce worked on the first submarine ever in Austria at any time he pleased.built in this country and himself Wishing to marry again, Tauber, set a number of automobile speed in 1935, asked Frau Vanconti to records, said he was "angered and agree to the divorce, as she had disgusted" with the way the war promised. She refused, and to department has treated him since alleged to have made further de-lhe signed their contract in 1920. mands.
Since that time, Christie said, Tauber is accordingly charging he has built 20 tanks for the army. her with blackmail, and demanding and laid the groundwork for the repayment £7,200 paid to her since best tank corps in the, world, but 1930. He is also suing for divorce the war department has consistent- in another court.
ly refused to uphold its end of the Frau Vanconti's inwyers declare contract. that the charge of blackmail is absurd.
Court
The decision of the expected to-morrow.----Reuter.
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"I have spent more than $1,700,- 000 of my own money on those is developments," Christie Bald. "Within the past few years, my shops have been closed by creditora ono at a time. The way conditions stand now I must have funds to continue my work.
"I am a patriotle American, how- jever. I am positive all the high artillery mounts in the world to-day will go into discard as soon as my new machine appears. I want the | American people, to profit by my
inventions..
"But unless the war department pays me what it owos and finances my latest model, I shall be forced to sell my patents elsewhere."
The new tank will be tested shortly. Clyde E. Pangborn, round the world flier, and Capt. Eddle Rickenbacker, war pilot, are modifying a plane which wil carry the tank. The modifica tions will consist of building in hooks which will lift the tank off the ground and drop it while flying 65 miles an hour- United Press.
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