TREASURE ON ISLAND.
SEARCH FOR PIRATE GOLD. AEROPLANES TO BE USED. LONDON, January 3. The "Weekly Dispatch" says a secret syndicate of European air experts is completing plans for maintaining from Brazil communications with the searchers for a pirates' hoard of precious stones and gold, buried on a small rocky, uninhabited island near Trinidad, in the South Pacific The loot was from a Spanish Vessel, and the pirates hastily buried it, owing to a warship's pursuit. They were eventually captured iand hanged. Manv recent attempts to recover the treasure have failed because landslides obscured the cache, and, also, searchers are unable to remain long owing to the impossibility of landing on the surf-beaten rocks for many months at a time, thus involving the probability of being marooned without food. The aerial treasure - seekers propose alighting from an airship or flyingboat for a prolonged search. The stores will be replenished by parachute^,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 80, 14 January 1928, Page 5
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