JAP. TREASURES
DIAMONDS IN FLASKS TOKIO, October 18. Among the “sundry goods” section of a Japanese Government import and export control agency, American officers to-day found £8,750,000 worth of loose diamonds. The investigation agents were led to the fortune by Mr. Hoso. manager of the “sundry items department.” He produced the diamonds from nine sealed thermos flasks, but could not explain where they had originally come from. He suggested that' they might have come from any of the Japanese-occupied territories, including Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies. It was also suggested that the stones came from rings donated by Japanese women to aid the Japanese war effort. This “j'lnd” followed the discovery of other caches. One was of 8,000 carats of diamonds in a burned-out building, another was of 11 boxes of diamonds, gold, and platinum in a house, and buried in a chicken-run.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1945, Page 3
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