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Doesn't that gold belong to the Japanese? (ntx)

Posted by Anon on Wed Oct 08, 2003 11:16:45 AM

In reply top Gold Rush 2003 Style.... posted by Paul McMillan on Wed Oct 08, 2003 07:10:34 AM

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: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,
: 7493141%255E663,00.html
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: http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=275004
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: allegedy from 'crashed Japanese plane' according to todays
: UK Daily Telegraph but no other story confirms this
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: "Jungle hunt for gold in wartime crashed plane
:
: Troops have been sent to a remote mountain in Papua New Gu
: inea's jungle to search for a hoard of gold believed to ha
: ve been on board a Japanese plane that crashed during the
: Second World War.
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: Ten tons of gold reportedly worth ?230 million are said to
: have been found in a cave this month by villagers on New
: Ireland, an island 530 miles north-east of the capital, Po
: rt Moresby. For decades the presence of the gold, believed
: to have been hidden in the cave by local people after the
: crash, was a closely guarded secret.
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: Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier reported that the search p
: arty was sent out after an elder revealed on his death bed
: that a villager had located the cave and discovered an un
: known number of gold bars in rotting wooden crates. By Nic
: k Squires in Sydney"
:
: Or fable?? Or Fools rush in??

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