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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.
HITLER SENDING OLD MASTERS VIA SIBERIA
FRANCE UNDER THE HEEL
Wearing of the French national colours and dis play of the French na- tional emblem in occupied France has been forbid- den by the Germans.
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HITLER SEEMS to have relinquished the role of Reich Art Patron-in-Chief and to have gone into art dealing or the double dealing
business.
He is arranging to sell, in the United States, fourteen old Masters some of the gems among the smaller paintings from museums in Berlin.
It appears, states the Ministry of Econo- mic Warfare, that these pictures are already on the way via Siberia and the Pacific Ocean.
Veneziano.
Domenico
The ban appears to foreshaťlow no good for the people of the areas
They consist of three Hem- now under German control, s'nce
brandts, three Vin Eycks and : it is the first step to suppress
French national sentiment in the works by Botticelli, Fouquet, Ver- northern parts of the country. It meer of Delft, Velasquez. Raphael, is no secret that the Germans, in Giorgione, Lippi and their plan for a greater Europe. have for a long time had their eye on France's northern provinces. and in any peace dictated by Hit- lei, it is extremely improbable that the northern and north-wes- will leave only one important pie- tern coasts of France will ever be 'ture by either of the Van Eycks returned fo that country, The in Berlin, movement for Breton indepen- dence, fostered by the Germans for j their own ends, is proof enough of ! that.
A recent proclamation made by
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of the oppression under which the people of occupied France are labouring.
It also shows, by expressly for bidding the throwing of slopes at German soldiers that the spirit of the French people is still very much alive under the Nazi heel. The proclamation says:--
Regulations For The
Population
In accordance with instructions from the Kreiskommandantur; (German District Command), the Mayor of Brest requests the per- pulation to comply with the fol- lowing regulat.ons:
Very few pictures by Fouquet in existence, and Giorgione are while the sale of three Van Eycks
It may be that Hitler intends to replenish the collections the schools concerned from the galleries of Holland,
and France,
CHUNGKING VERSION DENIED
A
Japanese Naval
of spokesman in a statement contradicted yesterday Belgium
the Chungking claims that the bodies of Ad-
The picture by Lippi is of "The Nativity," which is accepted as miral Osumi and others having been painted as an altar who were piece in the Medici Chapel in
The Italians are
Florence.
with a copy.
Sorely In Need
on
victims of 2, "accident" left 'plane
February 5 near Canton, were buried by the Chinese.
The transaction has doubtless been itcasioned by Hitler's quest for foreign exchange of which the herrenvolk stand sorely in need.
Since December, 1939, the Bri- tish blockade has stopped Ger- many's exports, but judging from the fact that the present market 1. National Emblem.--By 9. the value of Hitler's fourteen pictures of the head of the military af- ¦ bears no relation to the catalogue ministration in France, the French value estimated at £2,000,000 11 population is forbidden to wear the may be found that Americans will tr colour emblem In public,
in in poot be so ready to purchase whatever form. No object dis¦ view of the fact that the release played to the public must be de-of dullars would make available a corated with the French national large sum of money for the use colours.
Nazi propaganda, espionage and sabotage in America.
2. Insult to Italians.-The in- habitants are strictly forbidden to insult the Italian Vice-Consul at Brest, M. Vittorio Job. If the Vice- Consul is insulted afresh the city of Brest will be inflicted each time with a fine of 50,000 francs.
3. Throwing of Stones or Sundry Debris at 'German Soldiers.— Acts
In his hunt for foreign ex- change (though not of fire). Hitler is prepared to part with Germany's Italian treasures, re- gardless of the sentiments of his Axis partner.
It may be within the bounds of this sort will be repressed with of possibility, however, that Mus- extreme severity. If the culprits
are not discovered being subject to fine.
the city risks
a considerable
The Mayor counts on the spirit of understanding of the population for the avoidance of incidents the consequences of which may be serious for the whole community.
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C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES
“La Perla del Oriente”
declared that
The spokesman Japanese blucjackets effected landing on the southern foot ol Mount Hwangyang to the south of Canton,
atul un February 7 the wreckage and re- reached covered the bodies of the victims which were later taken aboard a Japanese naval vessel.
Naval
The Japanese
spokes- statement categorically man's denies that Admiral Osumi was proceeding to the South Seas as the
Commander-in-Chief of the combined Japanese Fleet in the that South Seas and also states the plane was not shot down by ground fire but crashed into Mount Hwangyung. Reuter.
solini would not be heartbroken at the interception by the Briti-t of the paintings which are. of the essence of Italian genius. Bri- tish Wireless.
GIRL RULE AN' INSULT TO TROOPS'
SHEFFIELD'S GRANDMOTHERLY ruling that soldiers who want to take a girl to the pictures must first get the permission of an officer, has been de- scribed as an insult to the Forces.
Yet the City Council, despite all protests, con- firmed its Watch Committee's rules.
Only one cinema is to be allowed to open on Sun- day, and, even if a soldier gets his officer's consent, the girl he takes must not be under sixteen.
Alderman F. Threves, chair- gradation Immediately. man of the Watch Committee, said their only desire was to assist the military authorities.
That was not the case there was nothing to fear. It was wrong that these young meri should have to go to a command- Councillor Mrs, Ada Moore ing officer or an N.CO, for “à tic- said she had been asked by the ket, if you please," to take their ....W.V.8, and the W.A.T.3. why girl friends to the pictures. ~
girls in these Ectvices qould not. Soldiers with daughters under take civilian boy friends,
sixteen would be debarred front Alderman Wormersler sald: the attending, ruling wattld imply that on join- Councillor Koebie Hawson sald: ing the Army young men, left, "This clause is an insult to the, their homes in a state of innocence soldiers. I hope at the earliest und foll into depths of moral de-3 moment it will be removed."