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...yacht. Unfortunately the yacht had been sold, had to be returned to its purchaser by a certain date, so they had only one week actually on Cocos to find the treasure. But Capt. Campbell had very specific clues, thought a week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...
...Nanking, Canton. Shanghai, passionately indignant Chinese likened Manchuria to Panama. When President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a strip of Colombian territory which spanned the Isthmus of Panama, they recalled, a secessionist movement conveniently arose. Panama broke away from Colombia. Promptly recognized as a new and sovereign state by President Roosevelt, she promptly permitted the U. S. to build the Panama Canal. Should Manchuria secede from China, what is to prevent Independent Manchuria from later merging with Japan? Full of suspicion, Chinese patriots scanned Japan for a Roosevelt. Is he Baron Kijuro Shidehara, famed Japanese Foreign Minister...
...upon a cross of gold!" In Colombia, harassed President Olaya Herrera decided that his country's burdens are too great to bear on a gold basis. Congress at his behest rushed through legislation similar to Britain's, barred gold exports from Colombia, barred even the exchange of Colombian pesos into dollars. Further south, President Terra of Uruguay declared that by meeting her interest obligations abroad in gold "Uruguay
...Colombian Petroleum is controlled by Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania (Mellon-controlled), buyer of a 75% interest for $2,500,000 in 1926. The remaining 25% is held by Carib Syndicate, Ltd., among whose directors are Charles Hayden of Hayden. Stone & Co., Ernest Stauffen Jr. of Marine Midland Corp. The Barco Concession is in the Department of North Santander, 200 miles from the Caribbean...
...Colombia (the one just below Panama, on South America's neck) gave to able General Virgilio Barco the concession to 11,500,000 acres of what was thought to be rich oil land. In 1918 General Barco sold the rights to 1,300,000 choice acres to Colombian Petroleum Co. of the U. S. In 1926, again in 1928, Colombia declared the Barco Concession cancelled, caused many a memorandum to pass between Washington and Bogota. Last week, however, a contract was signed by Colombia giving Colombian Petroleum right to work the land for 50 years. Plans...