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ART TREASURES FOR NATION

The Eumorfopoulos Collection

tion" he said. "The parting is a great grief to me."

(Special Air Mall Service)'

London, Jan. 13. The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum have combined to buy for the nation, at. the price of £100,000, the "cele brated Eurortopoulos collection of Chinese and Far Eastern art.

The price paid exceeds that of any previous purchase by either museum, apart from last year's adventure in the purchase of the Sinal Codex of the Bible, which was secured at the same figure of £100,000.

This time nearly half the sum thanks to required is in hand generous donations from Sir Per- -cival David the National Art- Collections Fund, the Universities China Committee, and the funds of the two museums. An appeal is being made for contributions from members of the public who appreciate the beauty and his- torical importance of oriental art. They should be sent to the direc- tors of either museum or to the National Art-Collections Fund.

two A few years ago the

inherited jointly the museums

Bequest, Vallentin substantial from which a sum running well into five figures can be assigned to this single important purchase Value "Several Times" Price The Eumorfopoulos collection formed at his Chelsea home by Mr. George Eumarfopoulos, a British- born member of the Greek mer. 18 chant firm of Ralli Bros.. probably the largest of its kind It contains 1,050 pieces of porce- lain and pottery" and roughly the same number of ancient bronzes, It includes sculptures in stone and wood, jades, gold, silver, glass Many of lacquer and paintings.

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the individual works of art are remarkable for their rarity, and whole groups of objects are presented of which the national collections have hitherto contain ed only in lor specimens or none at all

has

some

Mr. Eunos who is 71,

been collecting for thirty years,He has gathered his the sale-room, treasures, not in but mainly from people who im- ported them directly from China The value of the collection 11 put up to auction would certain- ly greatly exceed the price to be the nation. paid on behalf of Mr. Eumorfopoulos put it last night at "several times the price at which it is being acquired," and added that it would be difficult to put a value on some of the pieces.

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For the present no permanent division of the collection will be made. The sculptures will all go temporarily to South Kensington and the other objects are already being transported to and unpack- ed in the British Museum. most important piece of Chinese sculpture in the collection" is already on loan to the Victoria arid Albert Museum, where it may be seen.

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„Other objects selected are likely to be on view there in the coming months. The bulk of the collec- tion, however, will not be on view until the opening of the Chinese Art Exhibition which, is to be held at Burlington House next winter. Ultimately certain specimens may be lent to the leading provincial

museums,

FRANCE'S OLD NOBILITY

Prominent Service To Country

(Special Air Mall Service]

London, Jan. 12.

The Comte De Chambrun, the French Ambassador in Rome, on whom falls a great deal of the the "hitch task of getting over which has held up the signature of the Security Pact for Austria, cornes of one of the oldest familles

in France. He is a great-grandson of La Fayette.

The old French nobility was by no means extinguished by the Re- Volution. Its remnants came back and started life again in theit chateaux and Paris mansions.

In the Rue de Lille, the Rue de Varennes, the Due de l'Université in the aristocratic Faubourg St. Germain, they are still to be found.

They are very exclusive. Napo- leon III. and his parvenu aristo- cracy they never noticed at all.

Prominent in the Services To-day they are very prominent in the higher ranks of diplomacy, the army and the navy.

THE AUTOGIRO

IN

WAR

Challenge To Kite Balloons

(Special Al Mall Service)

London, January 12

An investigation is being con- ducted by the Army and Air Force authorities into the military value of the autogiro or rotating wing aircraft, writes the Acronauticai Correspondent of the Morning Fast

The investigation is in two' parts that which seeks to estimate the acope of this type of machine for certain kinds of Army co-opera- Its scope for aerial ton work and that which seeks

estimate

fighting.

The major tests in the Army co-operation work will be made during the next training season,

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In the summer of 1935, when R.A.F. "squadrons will take part in while the special manoeuvres: fighting tests will be begun with existing types of machine and may lead to the ordering by the Air. Ministry of an experimental mill- tary autogiro of novel design.

Substitute Kite Balloon It is not permissible to give de- machine Thus there are de Chambrun, de

the kind of Rare And Beautiful Specimens

Baumarchais. Peretti della Rocca, tails of

but it Mr. R. L. Hobson, Keeper of and de St. Aulaire de Fleuriau in visualised by Air Force officers as Oriental Antiquities at the British the French Foreign Office list. a rotating wing lighter; Museum. who himself catalogued The war made us familiar with may be mentioned that Senor de the ceramic portions of the collec-such great names as de Castelnau, la Clerva, the inventor of the first Franchet d'Esperey, and d'Amade, autogiro, worked out many years tion, was unpacking the crates yesterday.

The Navy in particular, which ago a design for an autogiro with described as a maximum speed of more than "The collection," he told me, Waldeck-Rousseau "embraces the development of

honeycombed with reaction, is 300 miles an hour and a landing from Chinese act

aesthetic largely officered by aristocrats. speed about the same as that of

A Boué de Lapeyrère was its Com existing military aeroplanes. point of view, and the objecta are not merely rare but often out-mander-in-Chief during the 'war: standingly beautiful. To take an Instance there are half a dozen

the first rate bronzes of

B.C.-250 period (1,200

have had in the Hitherto we museum only one bronze of any size this period.

Chou

In the Army co-operation field the autogiro has been proposed as a substitute, for the kite balloon. The kite balloon possesses certain advantages for gun-spotting over

B.C. VOYAGE TO NEW all types of heavier-than-air craft,

Further, the collection includes the biggest known Chou jades and the finest collection in existence of Han (200 BC.-220-A.D.) and Tang (7th-9th centuries A.D.) The Sung (10th-13th pottery. centuries) and Ming (14th-17th less centuries? pottery is scarcely remarkable.

"The later stuff, which followed Ming we are not taking, because here we are sufficiently represent ed," added Mr. Hobson.

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GUINEA

Yachtsmen Set Out From Singapore

and

Singapore, Jan. 18. To-day three American English adventurers start on a voyage in a Singapore yacht to un- frequented spots in Netherlands India and in New Guines.

rotating wing both including machines and fixed wing machines of conventional pattern, and it is favoured by some gunnery officers. Only Ab Adjunct

On the other hand, its clumsiness in the field and its vulnerability to the modern high-speed fighter 'plane" are such that the handier and more nimble autogiro is find- ing many supporters ATAL

Already the autogiro has been used for various forms of liaison with ground forces and also for in- tercommunication or the transport of Army commanders and staff officers.

""The 30 sculptures in the collec-

A. Free Press reporter who en tion mostly belong to the period

I am able to state that the auto- between Han and Tang, and there deavoured to get a few detalls was are some fine paintings, Including told that the trip was private and giro is not regarded in any way as -two outstanding ones a river confidential" but inquiries reveal a replacement for orthodox air- ed that the probable destination craft in Army co-operation squad- scene by Ma Yuan and a bird on

Wall of the yacht is the south-west rons, but as an adjunct to them, a branch from an album paintings are included, but there coast of New Guines which is out much as the kite balloon is at pre- The six autogiros which were de- is nothing comparable to the great of the usual run of trading steam-sent... wall painting at the end of the ers. King Edward VII, gallery, which we owe to the generosity of Mr. Parting "A Great Grier" Eumorfopoulos himself, through

National have the

Art-Collections "Various circumstances forced me to part with the collec- Fund.”

The adventurers are Mr. Hal-Livered at the end of August to the stead Lindsley, of New York, a School of Army Co-operation at wealthy American who is financing Old Barum have already done a"- the trip, Mr. W. H. Rodgers, and good deal of flying, but the ending of the Afthy's collective training Lieut. Col C. H. Barber, & mem- ber of the Indian Medical Service season in September prevented ex-~

tended trials from being under- who is on leave,

taken.

They left London just over á

MAN WHO MAY SUCCEED week ago by Imperial Airways, and

LORD TRENCHARD

Swept Gangs From Two Cities

London.

A Blue-eyed, rock-jawed man sits at a glass-topped desk in a cosy panelled room.

There is a twinkle in his eye. His crisp, vigorous voice is for- eign to his surroundings for the

room is the Chief Constable's office. at the Glasgow police headquarters, and Percy Joseph Balitoe is Eng- lish

It is rumoured that Captain Bil- toe will succeed Lord Trenchard 25. Scotland Yard

Yet Sillitoe found time to amar- ten his force by introducing trou- ser presses for the policeinen.

Glasgow in 1931 was a city of unrest. Unemployment was at its peak, Dole demonstrations, 50,000 strong, were held, and caused trou ble. Religious warfare raged in the east end.

Razor-slashing shop-keepers.

Fouths bullied

No Serious Crime

The Billitoe strong arm came

What kind of man is he? What into action. The demonstrations are his qualifications?

Hunted Gangsters

He is forty-six Eight years ago he was unknown. To-day he is one of the world's foremost police authorities, whose advice has been sought even by Chicago,

He has risen to fame by tackling two of the worst jobs a police chief

could have.

were disciplined so that one night 100,000 men marched through the city in orderly procession, and traf

was hardly held up,

Billitoe recognised that many of the gangster were victims of envi

arrived here on Monday.

The yacht they are sailing in is the White Swan which belongs to Mr. Merton Brown, the well-known yachtsman, and they will tour Java, Ball, Koepang, Eanda, the West Celebes, New Guines, Mac- cassar, and Borneo before retum- ing to Singapore, it is expected, in three months time.

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The yacht will be captained by a Malay and will have a crew of eight.

Flest from Singapore

It is the first yachting trip from Singapore undertaken by a party

from New York.

The White Swan, a splendid sex boat (before leaving Brisbane for.

-IN FIVE LANGUAGES

Special Air Mail Service)

London, Jan. 12. - John de la Valette, who has

organised the Burlington House Exhibition of Art in Industry, is clearly a man of unusual ele quanes.

At a luncheon held in the Royal Academy to welcome critics from all over the world, he made every- one at home by beginning in Eng- lith, continuing in French, and the objects of the exhibition in then in rapid transition explaining German and equally idiomatic Dutch and Swedish

Sir Edwin Lutyens gleefully de Singapore she made a long cruise scribed one of the pieces of textile round the Solomon Islands and draped over a plain wooden stand she covered the 4,000 miles between a portrait of somebody's wife the Australian port and here in 35 from one of the old Academy days, nearly all the way being un- shows.

Sir Edwin, who has been advisory. carefully der canvas), has been prepared for this trip, and is at architect to the whole exhibition, is particularly gratified at the present lying at Changi

compliments be has received for Built in 1927, the yacht possesses designing a small modern library a luxurious interior. Her saloon 18 bay with a mirror which seems to finished with polished maple and double its size is roomy. The dining saloon seats six people..

ronment. He aided the movement ches in height, muscular, athletic, that gave them social and sporting He rarely wears walform s clubs to occupy their enforced idle-He joined the British South Afri

can Mounted Police in Rhodesia in 1908, and was leading his men at

The ideas of 2,000 men were com piled and every man who was used rece

He was appointed Chief Com-Billitoe reorganized the force. He stable of Shemeid in 1976, when asked for suggestions. the city was terrorised by and razor, attacks were commón

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Mr. Robert Lutyene.

iding of Yorkshire in 1925, and in 1928 went to Sheffield.

He speaks half a dozen African languages. His favourite pastime

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