ROYAL MINT
Alarm over tunnel
(N.Z, Press Assn, —Copyright) LONDON, April 21. Anxious police converged on the Royal Mint when a surveyor reported a strange tunnel almost below the bullion vaults.
A surveyor, Mr Ernest Woodhurst, spotted the new diggings, which started beneath cargo sheds in deserted St Katharine docks.
The passage wqs almost 6ft high, fitted with lights and had been hacked through brick and concrete.
“Obviously the work of amateurs,” Mr Woodhurst said yesterday. But the alarm was called off when the Government Treasury reported that it was only the work of burrowing bureaucrats.
“Men from the Department of Environment,” a spokesman explained, "are making an exploratory dig to see if a pedestrian subway could be built—not to the mint, but to take tourists to the Tower of London across the way.”
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32587, 22 April 1971, Page 5
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