London, Oct. 8.
A big case of diamonds deposited in the earth shortly after the outbreak of the Great War by members of the German defence corps in German South-west Africa has been discovered by the British intelligence service, according to the Cape Town "Evening Standard" Information to that effect was revealed by Major Leipoldt of the British army. it is reported that he told the Parliamentary Committee of the travelling case and that they been intended as cover for the issue of emergency money during the war. They had been discovered the strength of certain di artificial cave tein along with boxes of table silver which was to have been used on the occasion of the opening by the German Crown Prince in 1914 of a planned exhibition in Windhuk.—
Trans-Ocean.
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