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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17291, 1 November 1921, Page 10

Doubloons, pieces of eight, rubies, diamonds, and pearls wprth a million lie in the rotting planks of the ship .Grosvenor, lost in 1732, off Port St. John, on the Kaffir coast. Sir Arthur Comm. Dcyle is interesting himself in the scheme of a Johannesburg syndicate for Balving the treasure. "I have written to the syndicate asking certain questions with regard to the method by which they hope to Balve the treasure," said Sir Arthur. "If the answers are satisfactory—and l l am an old sea-going man myself, having been a shiprs surgeon, with knowledge of such matters —I may take up one thousand shares. I certainly believe the treasure is worth a million." "Whether treasure so long lost is recoverable »s .doubted by salvage experts. All search for sunken cargo is speculative, and all questing for sunken treasure a dream," said an authority, ),