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Venus de Milo GUIDING DESTINY SPOTLIGHT
now in secret
hiding place
By Our Own Correspondent
*
PARIS.
UNDISMAYED by air raid warnings, workmen in Paris have just completed the task of moving five miles of art treasures from the Louvre. ̧ ̧
The Great Removal began six days be- fore the declaration of war, When precau tionary measures were thought essential.
Thousands of paintings, including the Mona Lisa, the Coronation of Napoleon, and other famous works, were first sent to a clearing station in the centre of France, and from there distributed to the various storage- centres previously arranged.
One of the priceless sculptures "evacuated" to a secret destination was the Venus de Milo.
M. Henri Verno, curator of the Louvre, who took me on a tour to see the evacuation of the last masterpieces, looked sadly round at the empty, galleries.
ames of the displaced pictures have boen: chalked on the walls so that it will bo easy to put them back in their original | places when war is over.
One of the attendants pointed out to me the corner where Watteau's "L'Indifferent," purloined for "re storation" last June, used to hang.
STRIPPED FROM. FRAMES Serge Buugousslavaky, 27-years- old Russian painter, charged with sicaling this masterpiece, was acn-
Sir Kingsley Wood with Mr. Malcolm, Mac- Donald and the Marquess of Zotland.
BOURNEMOUTH BAN
ON P.P.U. MEETING
tenced on Wednesday by the Paris A FEW hours before it was, "The inspector gave no reason. Correctional Court to two years' in due to begin. Bournemouth prisonment and five years' banish-police banned a Peace Pledge Osman and asked him the reason, He "Mr. Marchant and I saw Supt. ment from Parls French towns.
and principal Union meeting advertised for said he had received complaints Most of the larger canvases were last night, stripped from their frames and
rolled for easy transport. It looki The meeting was to have been held, forty men to take down the great at the Co-Operative Hall, Winton. picture, Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa," measuring 25ft, by 14ft.
The removers worked night and day as the paintings were despatched in a fleet of forries, and carried on coòlly with the work during air-raid alarms. With the Louvre closed, art lovers
are
Ten thousand leadels, put through letter boxes, had announced it.
about leaflets which had been dis- irlbuted headed, “What are we fight- Ang for?
said he had acted
"Afterwards the superintendent on instructions fram the Chief Constable of Hamp-
The advertised speaker was Mr. shire, and that the reuson was that John Barclay, " member of the the meeting was likely to cause a council of the Peace Pledge Unton, breach of the peace. and group organiser,
ON
CONSTIPATION
GERMANY try this safe way
PV, BERLIN. diplomatic Quarters. Þes lieve that "Helpful Hans': Fritsche, the Propaganda Ministry's war-time broadcaster, la ̈being groomed i for greater things.
It is now known that most of the "radio tricks" used by the Nazis fri recent weeks were thought out by .Fritsche.
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NOW it seems that his sphere of inquence is to be widened to give him greater scope.
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Feena-mint
Ar Fritsche's microphone. manner combines the check of. Goebbels) with a more subtle touch that ap-FOR CONSTIPATION peals to the Army High Command, And Goebbels hates him.
GERMAN broadcasts from France and Britain and other means used by the Allies for getting news to the German people are forcing 'the Nazis to modify their strict consorship.
For instance, Goebbels can no longer bluntly suppress the speeches -of foreign statesmen.
He now has to release all foreign: news, but editors have orders to dis- credit all unpalatable items,
FROM Switzerland and Italy come reports of an Increasing exodus of Industrialists trom, Germany,
They are taking their families for S prolonged holidays in neutral coun-i
trles.
THE Nazis are to reopen the opera house in Poznan, Poland,, according to the German radio.
Ironically, the first opera performed is one with patriotism for Its theme Schiller's "William Tell."
to be
FIVE German railway accidents in the last week are attributed by the Paris radio to the poor state of the Reich's rolling stock.
Passenger trains were involved in two of the crashes.
Twenty persons were killed in al
Berlin-Munich line.
Berlin station and ten more on the
Prisoner Misses Trial When Cell Lock Jams
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"We held the meeting privately in E. N. Walker out of jail. "Walker the Nation themselves. by visiting!
was charged with disorderly con- Museum, which has re-} "At about one o'clock a police in the Friends Meeting House.
duct, but couldn't appear before opened. In the new Trocadero, built specter called on Mr. Marchant, the "I have reported the matter to the Judge John B. Scott because the lock for the 1937 Exhibition, they can local secretary, and told him the Civil Liberties organisation. We on ha cell would not work. also
study the reproductions of meeting could not be held," Mr. shall also do our best to get a queK- Police, anally cut the lock, but it The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Lid. famous sculptured and archllectural Barclay said to the "Daily Herald" tion asked in the House Com- was too late for that day's session treasures in France..
last night.
mong."
and the case was re-set,
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