TO SEARCH FOR GOLD REEF

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 9

TO SEARCH FOR GOLD REEF

SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL'S LATEST VEN'TI RE CAPE TOWN, March 20. Sir Malcolm Campbell lias received permission to prospect on the wesl coast, between Luderit/. and Walfish Bay, for a gold reef. The legion is already a prohibited diamond area, and consequently a policeman will accompany Sir Malcolm. Before the German occupation, prospectors discovered a rich outeiop at Nauklult. on the lringe of the Namib Desert, but failed to locate the reef. A party ol Australians tried to locate it in 1893. It is rumoured that Sir Malcolm's objective is the treasure of the Great Mogul, which was hidden on the west coast. IThis part of the We.-! African coast is a land of endless sand-dunes and .-curdling, waterless deserts, in which valuable iinds of diamonds have been made in the pa: t. Sir Malcolm announced in January that he and Sir Alan Cubham intended to carry out exploration work by aeroplane m the Kalahari Desert, in central South-West Africa. Sir Malcolm to search for an area suitable for further attempts on the land speed record, and Sir Alan to continue his work of charting iiir routes and suitable landing-grounds Sir Malcolm admitted also that they intended to prospect for a gold reef of which he had learned from a woman who.-,- lather, who died m UM)O, had left her documcnls relating to it. A geologist and a mechanic are to accompany the expedition. Sir Malcolm's last treasure-hunting expedition was made several years ago, when h< headed a party which sailed to Cocos Island, in the Pacific Ocean, in search of the treasure valued at £ 12.000.000 which was said to have been carried i away from Lima, Peru, before the threatened invasion by Bolivar. However, all Sir Malcolm got for a fortnight's digging was an old spade and a rusty ringbolt.i