KRUGER MILLIONS.
MYSTERY CLEARED "UP. Colonel Dennys Reitz, mein her ol , Parliament, has cleared up the my,tei> of the missing Kruger vlio.i said that peonle believed that +ncn Oom Raul Kruger, former Pres.dent <>t the South African Kop'iW.c.wnj taking Pretoria on June 4. 1910, Vt.Kish before the occupation by J l|P , f’T; } IC . took with him bar gold to the value of £1,000,000. . , , .... dav The tradition persisted to this any. At least 15 peonle had lost then lives searching for the treasure. It was true when President Kruger, accompanied hv the speaker’s father, Dr. h ■ • Reitz, left Pretoria, they took with them £BO,OOO worth of gold bars, lnat was all thev had left for the purpose of founding a. now capital m tne Transvaal near Del ago a Bay. But the w.ld was sent to France, where it was sold to support the Boer refugees. One version was that the gold "as sunk with a schooner in St. Lucia Bay. Manv lives were lost trying to salvage the ‘wreck, including those of 13 Norwegians. The truth was that the ship was laden with bags of cement.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 5
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