BURIED TREASURE
EXPEDITION TO COCOS ISLANDS. EX-ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLBOYS (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.25 p.m.) London, October 16. Mr. Max Stanton, chief officer of Mawson's Antarctic Expedition in 1913 and commander of the Southern Cross in 1932, has sailed with a crew of twelve old public school boys in a motor yacht to seek the twelve million pounds treasure which reputedly was buried in the Cocos Islands in 1824.
Cocos or Keeling Islands are a coral srroup in the Indian Ocean Ocean, and included in the Strait Settlements Government. It is supposed that vast treasures were buried o'n these islands by pirates who swept the seas in the 17th century. Various expeditions have attempted to recover these treasures with no success. It was on the Cocos Islands that the German raider Emden was destroyed by the cruiser Sydney in 1914. A cable station is situated on the largest ot the Cocos Islands.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4458, 17 October 1933, Page 5
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