Show ng g Fight to Raise Sunken Gold From Liner Bears dears Fruit as Divers r Bring Brig Up 45 O to Salvage Ship Lt est Which Cost Two Vessels Ves Ves- Lives sels els and Fifteen 1 t. t r N searing Hearing aring Success iE i France June 10 First ff-First b two years cars of ot struggling to toof tot ts b of f fortune of from the t p reaped today of theses ea were tto s from the Italian salvage h-er h ten keA e A diverS direr II above e the surte sur- sur io rose te with 00 from the hold of the steamer EgyPt en old is In bullion form It rep rep- fie Ibe g gold which cost 15 lives tw two a strong quest ships 5 The fi fight ht has hase one e o of ei the most s spectacular plea bat of man against the sea of tS es rammed and E Egypt was steamer Tte off f the French coast by a n cargo I k IC in a 1922 In its hold was wasa 5 camer e locked in m th the In gold safe safely room In 1930 the Italian salvage e ship Ar Ar- set out to raise it but bad weather prevented The was blown to pieces with a loss of fourteen lives a short time later while attempting to salvage another steamer The salvage e company then sent the sister-ship sister of f the the Raffio to carry carryon on the work The captain sank nn an ton eight block of concrete to anchor the vessel As the block fell feU it caught in a chain and over over- turned the ship One of pf the crew was lost i iA A legend had grown u up that the Egypt's gold was cursed To this the stout hearted Genoese crew replied scornfully by naming a third salvage ship the Artiglio II II The II set out for the Egypt's location on May 25 1931 No sooner had It arrived than terrible weather set in It took the divers three da days s 's to find the E Egypt pt and when they did find it they could do dono dono dono no work Finally they succeeded in ripping open the Egypt's deck and by July 5 were only eight feet from the 5 5 The weather again thwarted them Slowly however they dug away and md on November 17 they broke through into the gold cold room itself But with the treasure almost in their hands winter struck them and imd the at- at tempt had to be abandoned until this year ear Last month the search was be begun un again and the first yellow bars were plumped lumped down on the Artiglio's deck toda today oday |