TREASURE OF THE ZUDYER ZEE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14057, 15 November 1909, Page 3

TREASURE OF THE ZUDYER ZEE.

The Dutch await with curiosity tli.: results til ii work mi.ii-.-.lakeii, m U„ Zudver Zee. On O ><»..,„• H, 1, ;.'..>, my English shin of war i.utm saiih. »> Dutch waters, carrying null Jl to tlie bottom thirty millions ot yold ami s lver in bars that the lir.uaii -.amm-i was sending to Hamburg to help ata financial crisis in the Hanse towns. The cargo, insured for nearly twentyfive millions, was entirely lost Lite Dutch Government, urged by 1 ranee, tried to recover the wreck, but a violent storm covered the ship with such :t thickness of sand that it had to be given up. After the restoration ot European Peace the King ot Holland abandoned his rights to Ins English collea'nie, who ceded them to the companv of Llovd. The company made a new attemnt in 1820 and its ellorts wore not unsuccessful, for they drew from the shin 198 bars of silver and 1200 ingots of gold, a total value of £1,700.000. The company of Lloyd lias entered into a contract with another societv which to-day undertakes the work "with the help of a new apparatus invented by an engineer named Lake. This apparatus is composed of a floating bridge, at the keel of which are fixed the instruments for diving. They consist of a number of pipes which can pump up in twenty-four hour? 40.000 tons of sand. At the extremity of those pipes one finds the room of the divers all built of metal. This chamber rests on indented wheels

placed in action by a motor of a particular svstem,' in such a manner tliat the divers can remove their room like a carriage, and roll it at the bottom of the sea, which makes the work easier and quicker.