“MALTA TREASURE”
FOUR GROUPS CLAIM IT SECURITY FOR LOAN? LONDON, April 3. Four heavy gold caskets, inlaid with diamonds and other precious stones, the contents including a fragment of the true cross, a portrait of the Virgin Mary, reputedly painted by St. Luke, and a relic of St. John, the Baptist 's right hand; known as “The .Malta Treasure,” are the subject of four rival claims, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail. Ihe claimants arc Soviet Russians, antiBolshevik Russians, a. group of British bankers, and the Knights of Alalia, io whom Signor .Mussolini recently regranted legal domicile in their ancient stronghold at Rhodes. Tlu> knights handed the caskets to the Russian Emperor, Paul, when the French seized Alalta in .171)8, and theyeventually came into possession of the ox-Empres.s Marie, who passed them on to Russian ecclosiasiics by whom (hey were lodged in the Russian Church at Berlin, which assigned them to English bankers as security tor a loan ol IMS,OOO, which has up to Ihe present, not been repaid.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16923, 11 April 1929, Page 11
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