SEARCH FOR TREASURES
MOSCOW CACHE DISCOVERED. WALLED UP IN HOUSE. (Received noon.) LONDON, December 25. The Belgrade correspondent of the “Star” states that a mammoth hunt for hidden Czarist Russian treasure amounting to £200,000, directed from Yugoslavia, has resulted in the discovery of bullion, plate and jewels walled up in a house in Moscow, where the residents were not aware that they were within a few feet of riches.
The discovery is due to M. Markovitch, partner of a Yugoslavian investigation agency, who visited the Societ Embassy in Berlin with plans of six hiding places of treasure which was buried when their owners fled in 1918.
The Soviet has hitherto demanded the whole of such treasures, but it has now agreed to take only 60 per cent, the remainder to go to the owner.
M. Markovitch was authorised to undertake treasure hunts on six different sites throughout Russia. Excavations are at present handicapped by snowfalls, but the news of one discovery lias caused a sensation among 25,000 emigres in Yugoslavia. Several others who buried treasure and are now poverty-stricken are producing plans.
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Northern Advocate, 27 December 1934, Page 8
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