LATE EX-SHAH OF PERSIA
BURIAL AT IRAQ
AN ENORMOUS FORTUNE
(United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) . , , PARIS, March 1. (Received March 2, at 5.5 p.m ) The body of the ex-Shah of Persia will be removed to the Moslem Mosque, after which it will be buried at Iraq Interment in Persia is forbidden. His fortune is estimated at nmh £50,000,000 or £60.000,000, mostly In jewels. Though he lived in the costliest fashion and spent enormously at the casinos, the world’s most beautiful diamond and the second largest after the Koh-i-noor, which is owned bv King George, is still intact in the ex-Shah’s collection.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20965, 3 March 1930, Page 7
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