THE SUNKEN EGYPT
SALVAGE .OPERATIONS. DIPLOMATIC BAG RECOVERED. (British Official Wireless.' (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright-) RUGBY, October 2. As a result of salvage operations on the steamship Egypt, which was sunk after a collision with a French steamer in the Bay of Biscay in 1022, the Foreign Office has received the contents of a diplomatic hag which was found in the captain’s safe and which was brough to the surface recently and conveyed to Brest. The documents, which lay at a depth of 400 fathoms for eight years, are coated with rust, and are still sodden from the damp ajr in the safe, but many of them arc still legible and the seals are intact They include official despatches and other communications to the British diplomatic representatives at many posts abroad.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 13
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133THE SUNKEN EGYPT Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 13
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