TREASURE ON ISLAND
SEARCH FOR PIRATE fiOI.D
LONDON, 3rd -Tan
Tin; "Weekly Di.spatcli" says a, secret syndicate of European air experts is completing plans for maintaining from Brazil communications with the searchers for a. pirates' hoar/J .of precious stone,'; and* gold; buried on a- small; rocky, -uninhabited isk»r>d near Trinidad in the South Atlantic. The loot was from a Spanish vessel, and the pirates hastily buried it, owing to a warship's pursuit. They were eventually captured and hanged. Many recent attempts to recover the treasure have failed because landslides obscured the cache, and, also, searchers lire unable to remain long owing to the impossibility of landing <*n the surfbeaten rocks for many months at a time, thus involving the probability of being marooned without food.
The aerial treasure seekers propose alighting from an airship on- a flying-boat for a. prolonged search. The stores will be replenished by parachutes.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 17 January 1928, Page 7
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148TREASURE ON ISLAND Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 17 January 1928, Page 7
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