1939-10-31 — Page 2

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WILLIAM FRAWLEY • HARVEY STEPHENS Directed by James Kogun » A Paramount Picture

TO-DAY ! EXTRA ADDED attractION ! FIRST PICTURES SHOWING ACTUAL WARFARE !

PARAMOUNT'S LATEST NEWSREEL SHOWING GERMANY'S MARCH INTO POLAND !

high-speed Danzig the" "Free City" being Nazi-fed by tanks and motörized infantry.

Germany's air fleet on a day's assignment in the "blitzkrieg." German training ship in ceaseless attack on the Wester- platte fort.

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THE CHINA MAIL; OCTOBER 31, 1939

THE LOVELIEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD IS SAFE FROM THE BOMBERS

Paris, Yesterday. WORKMEN IN PARIS having just completed the task of moving five miles of art treasures from the Louvre.

The Great Removal began six days before the declaration of war, when precautionary 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 stor- age centres previously arranged.

One of the priceless sculptures.. "evacuated" to a secret destination was the Venus de Milo.

M. Henri Verne, curator of the a tour to see the Louvre, who on evacuation of the last masterpieces, looked sadly round at the empty galleries.

Names of the displaced pictures have been chalked on the walls so that it will be easy to put them back in their original places when war is

over.

THE RIGHT SPIRIT

Sir George Reeves-Smith was speaking at a Savoy lunch of the necessity of maintaining London's night life in difficult times..

One of his hearers remarked sotto voce, "Let our motto be: "Trust In God and keep your

Martinis dry!!"

are consoling themselves by visiting the National Museum, which has re- opened. In the new. Trocadero, built for the 1937 Exhibition, they can also study the reproductions of famous sculptured and architectural treasures in France. Our Own Cor- respondent.

HEIL HITLER!

STRIPPED. FROM FRAMES Most of the larger canvases were stripped from their frames and roll- ed for easy transport.. It took. forty men to take down the great picture,

"The Raft of Gericault's.

the Medusa," measuring 25ft. by 14ft.

The removers worked night and day as the paintings were despatch-wives notifying them of the deaths of ed in a fleet of lorries, and carried on coolly with the work during air- raid alarms.

With the Louvre closed, art lovers'

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