SEARCH FOR TREASURE.
AN OPTIMISTIC HUNTER. ■ i i SATISFIED OF ITS EXISTENCE A GRUESOME DISCOVEBX (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) y (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) i (Received Dec. 14, 8.35 a.m.) j BUENOS AIRES, Dec i 3. * Professor Edgar Sanders, the chief of the British Exploration Syndicate, which is searching for Jesuit treasure in Bolivia, has sailed for England for the purpose of raising another £30,000 , for the purchase of pumping machinery and other equipment. He 'claims that the treasure undoubtedly exists, though perhaps not totalling £lO,000,000 as reported. He said: "In the course of our investigations we discovered 280 skeletons, presumably those of peons who were employed in carrying the treasure to the biding place. Most of then had evidently been poisoned, but others were beaten to death, their bones being broken."
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17585, 14 December 1928, Page 7
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