HUNT FOR TREASURE

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 December 1934, Page 3

HUNT FOR TREASURE

RUSSIAN REFUGEES’ HOPE. [by CABLE —PRESS aSSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received December 26, 1 p.m.) LONDON, December 25. “The Star’s” Belgrade correspondent. says; A mammoth hunt for hidden Tsarist Russian uensures amounting to £200,000, directed from Jugo Slavia, resulted in (lie discovery of [bullion, plate, and jewels walled up in a. house at Moscow, where the residents were unaware they were within a few feet of* riches. 'I he- discovery was due to Markovitch, a, partner in a Jugo Slavian investigation agency, visiting the Soviet Embassy at Berlin, with plans of six hiding places, where tr.asure was buried when the owners tied in 1918. The Soviet, hitherto, demanded the whole of such treasures, but now have agreed to take sixty per cent., the remainder going to the owners. It authorised Markovitch to undertake treasure hunts at six different sites throughout Russia. Excavations are at present handicapped by snowfalls, out nows of one discovery caused a sensation among the twenty-five thousand emigres of Jugo Slavia. Several others, who buried treasure, are how poverty stricken, and are producing plans.