FORTUNE IN CHICKEN COOP
DIAMONDS FOUND IN JAPAN* , (Rec. 8 a.m.) TOKIO, October 17. General MacArthur's headquarters announced that American army officers found a fortune in diamonds buried in a chicken coop on top of a mountain 160 miles north of Tokio. They also found eleven crates of platinum. Another search party discovered a package of-8,000 carats of diamonds. American troops discovered Japanese silver bars valued at 1,100,000 dollars buried m an underground room in an abandoned machine shop 100 miles from Tokio. The owner of the shop was arrested-
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Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5
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90FORTUNE IN CHICKEN COOP Evening Star, Issue 25617, 18 October 1945, Page 5
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