TREASURES IN RUSSIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 11

TREASURES IN RUSSIA.

MAMMOTH HUNT. A RICH DISCOVERY. SOVIET CONCESSION TO OWNERS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright, LONDON, Deo. 25. The Star’s Belgrade correspondent says a mammoth hunt for hidden. Tsarist and Russian treasures amounting to £200,000, directed from Yugoslavia, resulted in the discovery of bulletin, plate and jewels walled up in a house at Moscow, where the residents were unaware that they were within a few feet of riches. The discovery was due to Markovitoh, a partner in a Yugoslavian investigation agency, visiting the Soviet Embassy' at Berlin with plans of six hiding places where treasures were burled when the owners fled in 1918. The Soviet has hitherto demanded the whole of such treasures, but now they agree to take 60 per oent. the remainder going to the owners. It has authorised Markovitoh to undertake treasure hunts on- six different sites throughout Russia. The excavators at present are handicapped. by snowfalls, but the news of one discovery has caused a sensation among 25,000 emigres in Yugoslavia. Several others who buried their treasure and are now poverty-stricken, are producing plans.