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Show CREST OF GOLD FOUND IN SUNKEN CRUISER ALMIRANTE 0QUEND0 Santiago de Cuba, Nov..22.-The wreckers working on the sunken Spanish armored-cruiser Almirante Oquendo yesterday discovered a chest containing S19.000 in Spanish gold, which the Cendoya company, the firm employing the divers, will rei.ain. Work on the cruiser has been in progress for 'five months and many thousands thou-sands of dollars' worth of treasure has been secured. The safe ww found in the bottom, where it fell during the burning-of the hin Only a few days ago the' wreckers began on the torpedo boat destroyer Furor. Fu-ror. They have already found a servioe 0f heavy silver nlate. Experts assert, as-sert, after inspecting the destroyer, that she might easily have been, raised and repaired. The wrecking operations have proved a source of large returns ' to the company, estimated at 5500,000. |