FOOL’S GOLD: SEARCH FOR NAZI TRAIN COMES UP EMPTY

Hopes for finding a legendary Nazi “gold train” in Poland appeared dashed Wednesday when, after digging extensively, explorers admitted they found “no train, no tunnel” at the site. A local legend says in 1945, the Germans hid a train laden with gold and valuables in a secret tunnel near the town of Walbrzych as they were fleeing the Soviet army at the end of the Second World War. Last week two ex- plorers — Andreas Richter, a German, and Piotr Koper, a Pole — moved in with heavy equipment and dug deep. But spokesman Andrzej Gaik said Wednesday that they found “no train, no tunnel” there and that the machines were covering over the three pits. Saying “hope dies last,” Gaik said a smaller-scale search using probes will resume at a nearby site in September.