GOLD FALLS INTO SEA
SIX BOXES OF BULLION BURIED DEEP IN MUD. PARIS, February 23. (Received Feb. 24, at 5.5 p.m.) A mishap which is likely to be of a most expensive character happened at Cherbourg docks when 426 boxes of gold from New York were being unloaded from the Berengaria. A chain broke, and 10 boxes fell on the quayside and burst open, the contents of six, amounting to £IOO,OOO, falling into the water. Divers were summoned, but salvage will be most difficult, as the ingots, which weigh 501 b each, are buried deep in the mud.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21578, 25 February 1932, Page 9
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