Cocos Treasure

Use of Modern Equipment

WITH the object of recovering valuable treasures which in the past have been hidden in various parts of the world, an English company has been formed to carry out a search over a period of two years, employing the latest modern scien tific equipment. The immediate aim of the company is the recovery of gold and jewels from the Island of Cocos, about 600 miles west of Panama City, where one of the richest treasure-troves in the history of mankind awaits the finder.

The Company will be known as Treasure Recovery Ltd., and a seaplane is to be used for communication with the mainland at

Panama, and to carry supplies and goods which would normally be despatched by boat. A motor yacht will also be taken out, and the Shell Company has received the order to supply aviation spirit, lubricating oil and diesel oil to the expedition.

References to the treasure buried by pirates on Cocos Island are made in the official handbooks issued by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, which state: “The existence of treasure concealed in the island is well established. ... A vast treasure obtained by rifling certain churches in Peru ... gold bars and specie, worth $11,000,000 and about $12,000,- 000 worth of stolen gold coin, jewels and silver ingots .. . The main stores of treasure are still hidden, in spite of various excavations and blasting operations which have been undertaken from time to time.”