“EGYPT” SALVAGE
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS FOUND. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, October 2. As the result of the salvage operations on the steamship Egypt, sunk after a collision with a. French steamer in the Bay of Biscay in 1922, the Foreign Office has received the contents of a diplomatic bag found in the captain’s safe, which was brought to the surface recently, and conveyed to Brest. The documents, which lay at a depth of 400 fathoms for eight years, are coated with rust, and are still sodden from the damp air in the safe, but many of them are still legible, and the seals are intact. They include official despatches and other communications to British diplomatic representatives at many posts abroad.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1930, Page 12
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