The Archive · 1925

Hidden Treasure Story

'The Secret of Baron Ungern'

Cache on Sale for $30,000

The sole possessor of: the secret of the hidden treasure of the despot Baron Ungern, according to his! own tale, as recited in the "Zarya," is now in Shanghai, looking for capital to investigate the deserts of 'Mongolia to recover this stolen loot, now buried for five years. The: correspondent stated that, after Baron Ungern by his own hand shot his troopers who buried the gold, silver and gems, he managed some miraculous' manner to escape with the dreaded Baron's secret. Ungern, it will be recalled, shot by the Bolsheviks without losing the hiding place of untold millions in treasure.

Now he is in Shanghai and has publicly stated that the secret is at the disposal of any person, who will pay him $80,000, when the first shovel-full of earth has been removed from the hidden hoard.

Whether any one will gamble on an far distant coun-for in 1923 British and Italian interests from the northern cities of China proposed to investigate and unearth the loot, The British refused te acrid men and motors in the rainbow chase, but the Italians did. straggling twos and threes they came back to their starting point, with not a ring or rouble to show for their trouble,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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