The Archive · 1926

Gold Recovered from the Sea

Coins Obtained from Sixty Year id Wreck Tokyo, July 19.

Mr. Kouichi Mita, of Kobe, sueceeded, on July 14, in recovering gold coins to the value of ¥.50,000 from the "Shaho Maru" of Satsuma clan which sank off Nakanoshima Island of Kagoshima Prefecture 60) years ago with Y. 2,000,000 worth fof coins, while returning from the Loochoo' Islands. The gold coins referred to above were the currency} the old Loochoo Government. Mr. is now trying to recover all of the sunken treasure—Toho, MAxtA, July 16. Captain Lorigs, the Spanish aviator, has -arrived from Macao and will leave short-

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