MALTA TREASURE.
FOUR GROUPS CLAIAI IT
SECURITY FOR LOAN?
LONDON, April 3. Four heavy gold caskets inlaid ivitli diamonds and other precious stones, the contents including a fragment ol tne true cross, a portrait of the- Virgin Alary, reputedly painted by St. Duke, and a relic of St. John the Uuptist’s right hand, known as “the Malta. Treasure,” are the subject ol' four rival claims, says the Paris corof the “Daily Mail.” The claimants are Soviet Russians, antiBolshevik Russians, a group of British bankers, and the Knights of Malta, to whom Signor Alussoiini recently, regranted legal domicile in their ancient stronghold at Rhodes. The knights handed the caskets to the Russian Emperor Paul, when the French seized Alalta in 1798, and they eventually came into the possession of the ex-Em press Alarie, who passed them on to the Russian ecclesiastics, by whom they were lodged in the Russian church at Berlin, which assigned them to English bankers as security for a loan of £48,000, which has up' to the present not been repaid-
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 12 April 1929, Page 6
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173MALTA TREASURE. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 12 April 1929, Page 6
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