Divers Vainly Try to Find Missing Sovereigns Divers searched the bed of the Thames off Gravesend in vain recently for a package containing 1400 gold sovereigns.
It was repotted that the gold was lost while being transhipped from a Greek steamer in the middle of the night About 5,000 sovereigns were being brought to London as part payment for a steamer|being purchased by a Near East firm. "An agent awaited the ship at Gravesend, and had a taxi-cab ready to take the money and valuable securities to London.
The agent, jit is stated, hired a Gravesend waterman to bring the packages ashore, and they were landed at the New Bridge and placed in the taxi. 1 When the money was counted in London it was discovered that a package containing 1400 sovereigns was missing.
The loss was reported to the police and a wide search was made along the river front ithout success.
Representatives from Great Britain. France, Poland ard Germany have been trying to find out something about these birds.
Although all countries have agreed on their scarcity, their approximate decrease is unknown, as is the longest distance they can cover in flight.
Like flies, they raise the question—where do they go to in the wintertime?
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