Brest, Sept, 23.
With high hopes that success will reward their two-year struggle to wrest the elusive treasure the Bottom of the ocean, the crew the Italian salvage steamer Artiglio left port to-day to. cut away the last steel plate that separates them from the bullion fon board the sunken P. & O. liner Egypt, which foundered off the coast of France on May 20, 1922, with the loss of 87 lives, huge cranes which, the divers are The Artiglio, is equipped with confident, will at last give them access to the treasure—five tons of gold in bars and coin and tons of silver, valued at £1,000,000.
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