BURIED TREASURE FOUND

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 10

BURIED TREASURE FOUND

I A French civilian and his wife, accompanied by two or three French -officers, came to Fricourt, which we cap- v tured on , 2nd July (writes Philip Gibbs, in the Daily Chronicle). Fricourt is now on the edge of the Somme battlefields, far back now from the fighting lines. Of the village there remain only a few rubbish heaps, among the broken trenches, the old minecraters, the. shell-holes, and the litter of complete destruction. But the French civilian pointed to a plot of earth in all this turmoil and said, "There was my house. ... I am sure of it." The party started scraping up the earth, and digging a. foot or two down, here and there.' Suddenly there was a cry of astonishment. " God be thanked !" - "It is here! I have fdund it!" cried the Frenchman, „and 'all hands were raised up as though in the presence of a miracle. It was hardly less than that. The Frenchman and his wife shad found 35,000 francs, all the treasure of their life, six inches deep under soil that had been flung up by mine-craters, burrowed by high explosives,, dug by German soldiers, tramped over by British soldiers, and tortured by every, deatruc-