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SAVING MADRID'S ART

TREASURES

Fate Of The Prado Museum

In a period of quiet offered by, disposed two days of cloudy, rainy weather the Government is busy removing to a place of safety priceless works of art still remaining in Madrid.

of-these

Committees

went systematically through old. houses and municipalities around Madrid, bringing historical trea sures in to safety. They had to 'work under grave dimculties. The Militiamen who helped them were enthusiastic Father thin critical,

I visited the Prado Museum re- cently. The glass windows have nearly all been blown out in the last air xald. The Museum was in

BOOKS AND EMBROIDERY armi-darkness. In the gloom workmen were furiously busy put- There are innumerable stories of ting pictures into enormous pack-enthusiastic militiamen salving ing cases, and loading these carè- į gaudy, modern chasubles and fully on to lorries which will carry throwing into a corner as valueless them off to the security of Valencia some faded embroideries dating 1 and Alicante..

Most of this work has devolved on the Fifth Regiment of Militia, whose troops have all been placed for the preservation of the works of urt. The ground door of the Prado re-echoes to their steps.

from the early middle ages.

It was not until Toledo had been captured that full realisation of the needs of the hour were im- pressed on the Government. The retreat of the Government from Toledo was too precipate to permit of saving the pictures there. Of- ficials have assured me that the famous El Grecos there were not damaged when the Government forces left.NET

In Madrid. much damage has already been done by the Junta bombs and shells. The Duke of

SEADROMES ON ALL PROFITS

AIR ROUTES

The Floating Islands

SPEED AND SAFETY

Link With America

BY CAPTAIN THE RIGHT · ** HON, F. E, GUEST, MP," During the past monta attention has once again been called to the seadrome or floating island, which It is claimed, will allow air com- | munications over the widest land- less routes in the world to be es- tablish with perfect safety.

The idea is not new. · Almost ex-

two years ago. I elaborated precisely the same project in two special articles for The Observer, which can therefore claim to be the fret great newspaper to have seen the possibilities of the float ing island.

I then explained how go in superable, technical difficulties were Involved in the construction of a platform in mid-ocean possessing complete stability even amid the -worst storms, and combining an ple landing facilities with huge storage capacity for fueling both zeroplanes and ships.

Stability can be secured by

The statues have been removed from their pedestals The walls are pace of pictures. · The corri- dors are filled with packing-cases containing the nation's treasures.

For weeks now the work of saving irreplaceable art treasures has been going on. Back in Octo- ber 1 visited the Church of Illescas : Alba's palace-Palacio de Liris-underwater doats, taken down to recently converted into a Museum a depth where no ruffling of the and certainly one of the most not surface produces the slightest ef- sble museums of Madrid, was feet. The force of surface move struck by 14 incendiary bombs a ments is also minimised by max- few nights ago during a Junta airing the pillars on which the plat- rald The Palace has been "com- pletely destroyed, but while it was burning Militiamen ran in under peril of their lives and saived some of the artistic treasures there.

în sec. El Greco's "San Tidefonso" and found it had been taken away the day before. to Madrid for safety

AT THE ESCORIAL The same thing, has been done at the Escorial. There. Ane Titians, Riberas, Tintorettos. El Grecos, and Boschs, all of which were movable, have been taken down and sent to Madrid, where they are now stored in the vaults of the Bank of Spain Only the inaccessible cellings have

had to be left in situ."

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I found one of the great halls of the Prado used 'as FIL soldiers'! dormitory. It was a striking-con- trast-the beds, blankets and equipment on the floor, while up above were the bold designs and voluptuous colours of Jordsens. pupil of Rubens.

DEDICATED

TO SCIENCE

Income From

£1,000,000 Capital

THE WELLCOME . FOUNDATION

For the Brst time in Industrial history, a big manufacturing con- cern-Burroughs Wellcome and Co, manufacturing chemists-is to be run not for private, or even co- operative, profit, but solely for the endowment of scientific research and the upkeep of scientific in-

stitutions.

Bir Henry Dale, Director of the National Institute for Medical Re- search under the Medical Research Council, and Professor T. R. Elliott, Professor of, Medicine in London University, are nominated for the posts of medical trustees.

HEROIN HOUSE UNEARTHED

Stiff Impositions

Chinese Revenue Officer Commended

Lam Lo Luz and a woman Mo Ying, were both brought before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magis- trucy yesterday for the possession of 350 ounces of pink masa and 73.290 heroin pills at 39, Queen's Road West, on November 20.

Assistant Crown Belleitor, Mr. M. 3. Abbott, stated that on Novem- ber 15, at 8.15.a.m., Revenue Officer Grimmit with C. R. O. 107 and a Party of men raided 39, Queen's third floor. They Road West, knocked at the door but received: CO reply.

The party outside distinc ly heard the rustling of footsteps in the interior. He also added that ther If the nominations are accepted | heard more than two or three per- they will have the responsibility sons inside the premises The for the scientific direction of the party then tried to force the door income from not less than £1:000,- open but it was bolted so tight 000 of industrial capital-in all that they could not more, it. probability substantially

Mr. Grimmitt then went out to The scheme is the result of the the verandah of 41, Queen's Road vision of the late Sir Henry Well-West and climbed through a win- come,

more.

The business, with its associated undertakings, has almost world wide interests, and there is no one at the present time who can say what is even the approximate form is supported of a shape cályalue of the whole undertaking. culated to Der the least resistance to the waves, upon the analogy of a streamlined motor car.

... PRACTICABLE The platform is raised to a It is impossible to know yet whất was saved and what was lost. It is height well above the crest or the believed that the Titians, Rem-highest waves ever known even in an Atlantic storm, and the whole brandts, and Goyas were for the most part saved.

island is given mobility by equip ping it with propellers and rud- ders, It is hardly necessary to elaborate further the technicalities of the Island.

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Its construction is nerfectly Practicable. A large scale model of what is known as the Armstrong | seadrome was tried out some years ago in the waters of Chesapeake

· Bay, and was stated to have fulfil- ed all expectations.

FAMOUS FRESCOES It is impossible to say what has happened to the magnificent frescoes in the Hermitage of San Antonio de la Florida. This Chapel Is near the North Station, which has been, heavily bombed and shelled in the past two weeks.

The famous painter decorated the root of the Hermitage with frescoes representing St. Anthony preaching and his miracles-full of hire and movement, but with a minimum of religious sentiment. These will inevitably have guffer- ed if the Hermitage has been Working with limited equipment struck New York Herald Tri-money can have the seadrómer -two lorries were the most they | buna."

Most of the books of the Escorial Library have been either lodged in the cellars or taken to Madrid. The Committee of Popular Culture and the Committee for the protec- tion or Artistic Heritage have done signal work in the environs of Madrid in saving from bombard ment and ruin the artistic and Ikterary treasures of Spain.

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dow at the kitchen of 39, Queen's Road West. When he entered to rst cubicle be found no one there so he opened the mals door to let the party in.

The cubicle was used for a heroin. factory and the odour was very strong

It was in 1924 that Sir Henry formed the Wellcome. Foundation

Ten minutes later CRO. 899 to take over, at the same time, the came in with the two defendants. business of Burroughs Wellcome The first defendant's hands were and Co., in London, Montreal, tied. Mr. Grimmitt told him that Bombay, and Shanghai. and the the defendant could not be tied Wellcome Research Institution, and he was untled. As soon as the latter comprising the various they untied the defendant's hand. research organisations which bear he immediately ran away but was Sir Henry's name. Now, the whole arrested again, research organisation, as well as Mr. Taylor and Mr. Grimmits the business behind it, will be then proceeded to examine the pre- placed on a purely altruistle basis.mises and found the place is a Following are the institutions a fected:

The Wellcome Physiological and C emical Research Laboratles and the Wellcome Museums of Medical Filstory and of Medical Science- The island to which attention is all housed in the Wellcome Foun- Euston-road, now being drawn by Mr. M. Edation building in Helser embodies certain differ | London; ences, but the basic Idea appears The Wellcome Physiological Re- to be the same. It is, therefore, search Laboratories at Becken beyond doubt that any nation or ham;

"The nations which care to spend the

My purpose in this article is not to elaborate further the technical ities of construction which are to be subjected to expert examina- tion, but to point out the economie and political considerations raised by the idea.

THE AIRSHIP

regular oplum factory consisting of

three cubicles and the windows of all tightly closed.

Mr. Grimmitt questioned the two defendants at the place but he could not understand them for they spoke in Shanghai dialect. Mr. Abbott added that Mr. Grim-' mitt discovered later that' the'

or had four bolts: two at the top and two at the bottom.

Eurs Yu CKD, 107, Tas one Wellcome Entomological

of the men

Grimmitt's on Mr. Field Laboratories at Esher.

Provision is also made for the party who raided 39, Queen's Road, publication by the Foundation in West, who did a very daring deed. permanently useful form of all It was alleged that he climbed out. scientiac investigations under the window of the premises and got up to the roof to look down taken. It will be possible for the trustees, at their discretion, to into the kitchen of the second subsidise virtually any form of floor. He saw the two defendants medical research, independently of being held by two folis at, the

particular It may be thought that the re- the

laboratorica

second foor The fokis were Pang cent performances of the German which it is undertaken.

Wing and Tung Lim.whq resided trans-Atlantic airships have madé The other trustees are Mr. G. H. at 42, Bonham Strand. The two the scadrome superfluous. I have Hudson Lyall and Mr. Lancelot defendants, seeing a policeman ap- myself travelled in the Hinder- Bullock. solicitors, and Mr. Martinproach proceeded to run and was burg, and was most deeply im- Price, chartered accountant. Anchased by C.RO. 107. pressed with her performance. I important provision of the scheme At the bottom of the steps of believe that we should be most is that the number of trustees 42. Bonham Strand CRO 107 foolish to be discouraged for ever should be permanently retained at managed to catch the defen- by the disasters to our own and to five, of whom two will always bedants C.R.O. 107 stated in the certain, other airships.

men of medical eminence, and two ❘ witness box that he had, a bit of men of business and administra- tive experience.

The cost of a sister airship to the Hindenburg would be about £250,000, and that must be com- pared with the $3000,000 which would be the estimated cost of a noating island,

DANISH PRINCESS'S

WEDDING

It is announced that the wed- ding of. Princess Alexandrine Louise, the 22-year-old niece of King Christian, and Count Luit pold zu Castell Castell, of Bavaria, will take place on January 22, in the old Royal church near Castle Christiansborg.

RESEARCH WORK : Yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, and cat distemper are three of the diseases on which important work has already been undertaken by the Wellcome Laboratories.

a struggle with the two defendants.

A private watchman, while walk- ing along 42, Bonham Strand heard C.R.O. 197 calling for assis tance. He went to the scene and helped to arrest the two defen- dants d

Mr. T. C. Roger Woo police inter- The Wellcome Museum of Medi- cal Belence has been described as preter, read the defendants' state- the first museum capable of con- ments in Court. The first defen- veying the romance of medicine

dant said that he manufactured to a lay visitor. It is, however,

the heroin pills at 39, Queen's Boad intended for medical men or in-West, third floor, and that he was dividuals with serions medical in-ployed by a man for $3 per terests, its object being to bring month.

the whole of medical science to- The second defendant's state- gether for the instruction of stu- ment, was that she worked there dent and specialist alike. A spec as an amah and aside from her fal feature is made of "up-to-the-job she was to assist in making minute" display and medical re- heroin pills. She was told before ferences,

she was employed, that these red The Historical Medical Museum, pills were medicine. * which represents a strong personal"} The first defendant, making a interest of Sir Henry Wellcome, de- statement from the dock, stated picts the whole history or medical that he used to be a carpenter and science, from the technique of the was asked by a man to help in prehistoric operation of "trephin, the making of heroin pilla. "I ing" for the release of demons had not seen a red pili before. I through a hole in the patient's really thought they were medi- scull, to the development of mo cine, he concluded. gern scientific, medicine. This museum, which is now in course

The second defendant said, that or rearrangement, contains many

she was engaged by some one ar an amah. "I came from 'Bhang- times more material than has hal and I did not know the law hitherto been exhibited

here. I work for a few dollars a Sir Henry Dale was for ten years month just for food and clothing." director of the Welcome Physio-|- logical Research Laboratories.

It is expected that members of the British Royal Family will be represented at the wedding, which will be followed by a great ban- quet at Christiansborg.

COUNTRY FOLK USING MORE WATER

A Cleaner Generation

The fact that people in rural ereas use more water than in former days, was emphasised re- cently by Mr. J. Coste, at the Public Health Congress in London, The standard of cleanliness, both for persons, their clothes, and "their" "houses,"" "he remarked: “is much higher than it was even a. few years ago. Consequently, the volume of water per head which A plea for co-ordination to re- to 12 months imprisonment with satisfied the rude forefathers of move the present "chaos" in river the alternative of a fine of $2,500 or the hamlet is insuficient for their control was made by Mr. Alfred to serve another 2 months hard grey flannel-trousered, zip-shirted Blackburn descendants, and rayon needs

more frequent washing than pink Hannelette 2

After Mr. Abbott had asked for maximum penalty, His Wor- ship sentenced the two defendants

labour.

"Is it not a national disgrace." His Worship commended C.R.O.

he asked, "that our rivers are 107 for his bravery in apprehend-

more or less open, sewėra?

ing the quiprits single-handed.