RICH GOLD FIND

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1934, Page 5

RICH GOLD FIND

AT ASIATIC LAKE By Russian Refugees (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received August 17 al 8.25 p.m.) CALCUTTA. August 17. Quantities of gold on the sandy shores of a vast lake at the fool o. Ilh Karakoram Mountains is report <‘d by N. Yuijeff. a Russian mining engineer, wh-o has reached India. •’ Iler amazing adventures. Yurieff is a While Russian and li< fought against the Bolsheviks unde Admiral Kolchak in 1923. When tinlatter's army was routed, Yurieff an--three others fled to India. Tliev hi«. ’n the Barnin Alon mains, where they suffered from intense cold, hr..nger aim thirst. • They event muly reached tinfrozen lake, anj they were amazed t*o find that the sand contained a large proportion of gold-dust. The; then staked claims. Aftt'y many days of a trek oveicy wastes, they met a Chinese shop tierd who betrayed them to Soviet agents. They )were imprisoned for tci vears. Twice they escaped but they were recaptured. On a third occasion however. they evaded their guard*-' and escaped to Afghanistan. Haul of Bullion FROM SUNKEN LINER.

ON IRISH COAST. (Received August 17 at 7.5 p.m.) LONDON. August 17. The “Daily Mail’s’’ Londonderry correspondent states; After three months of hazardous work, on the treacherous Donegal coast, private salvors have ’recovered a part of one million pounds slerbng’s worth of bullion from the torpedoed ’iner Laurent ic, ” from which Admiralty divers salved five millions in 1924. Recently the. salvage steamer "At lendant’’ was fitted with specie! pumps, enabling the operators to elea<n mountains of sand covering the “ Laurentir. ’ ’ Tho divers fought both the weather and the sea. They often worked only for minutes at treacherous dep's in the liner, which h-t been beaten as flat as a pancake. The exact amount of the bullion recovered is unknown.