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BITTER ATTACKS MADE RECENTLY.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1927:

NEW VELASQUEZ FOUND.

DISCOVERY IN SPANISH CONVENT.

The Russian Communista have

There is no doubt that the por: let loose a general attack on the trait of the Franciscan nun Sistor General Council of the Trades Jeronima de la Frente, preserved Union Congress. The Central in the Convent of Santa Isabel 'in Council of the Russian Trade Toledo, at present on view in the Unions which was followed up in Franciscan Exhibition in Madrid, Workery Life, the official Com-is a genuine Velasquez and, more- munist organ in this country, with over, the earliest known portrait n page article headed “A Story of painted by the Master. Experts Broken Promises: How the Gen-have examined the picture and the eral Counell betr yed Angle signature and pronounced them Russian Unity." Thi offence of genuine.

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the General Council simply that A detailed study of this paint- it has declined to make itself the Ing should throw considerable agent and tool of Communist light on the most obscure phase polley both in this country and in of the painter's career, the period the affairs of the world at large when, while living in Seville, he and that it has resented the inter-was engaged ir painting still life. ference and dictution of the Com-the mysterious bodegones chop- munists in respect of British trade houses] mentioned by Pacheco, his union policy and accion, says a father-in-law, and for which such Home corresponden!.

heart-breaking search has been

Recent undertakings by the made by collectors. Besides the Russians not to intrude in British date, 1620, inscribed on the pic- trade union affairs are east to the ture, it is certain that the por- winds, Pledges most formally trait was executed in Seville be- riven last April have been de-tween the end of May and the liberately broken, and Tomsky de- third week in June of that year, clares in a letter that co far as the because Sister Jeronima, who was publication of his personal then 66 years old, after setting out opinions is concerned he does not from her convent in Toledo to consider himself bound by any found a mission at Manila, in the resolutions of the Anglo-Russian | Philippine Islanda, tarried only Committee-although he ngreed three weeks in Seville before em- to them-"for it would be naive barking on a journey that lasted to imagine that I could recognize 13 months. (As anyone who any solution which was contrary looks at her portrait will surmise, to my convictions." This appears the mission was duly founded.) - to mean that Tomsky, as a private By discovering this picture the individual, may be unfettered, Friends of Art (Amigos del Arte) while Tomsky, the official, is Soclety have once again deserved bound,

public gratitude. Moreover, the story of its identification shows that hidden wealth still lies in the But sophistry of that kind, convents of the Peninsula. When though it might serve for a letter the committee of the society, de- written on June 6, does not at all

Flagrant Instance.

of non-interference. It revivea

account for the declaration issued puted to organize the exhibition, three weeks later by the Central headed by the Marques de Mon- Council of the Russian Unions. tesa, set put arrid with excelesias: This declarations is an official and convents for the purmase of select- tical authority to enter cloistered flagrant violation of the compacting exhibits, they were shown this the vilification of the British Gen- picture grimy with dust hanging in a corridor. The Mother Su- eral Council that was current inperior told them of whom it was Communist quarters last year. The charges of treachery and the portrait and said it was pro- sabotage are repenter, and

once bably a work of the painter Tris- again the Russians appeal to the tan a disciple of El Greco. A rank and file of British trade few weeks later, while cleaning unionists over the beds of the the painting, Senor Seisdedos, an General Council. There is there expert from the Prado, was fore no longer a possibility of tonished to see appetring before burking the issue of whether the his eyes as the dirt of ages was trade union movement of this patiently rubbed away the rare country shall be British led

signature of the Master painted Russian led.

across the foot of the picture be Speaking on a resolution con-low the lettering (which, by the demning the Government for way, as well as the white seroll breaking off relations with Cussin bearing a Latin inscription, was at-the annual Conference of the added at a later date by the nuns).

When the Franciscan Exhibi National Union of Railwaymen at Carlisle on Friday, Mr. J. Htion closes what will happen to Thomas. M... replied to Con- the new Valesquez? Will it re- turn to its cloistere seclusion?) munist attacks on himself.

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Mr. Thomas sai no greater The Marquis de Estella, who ex- mistake could be made than to pressed great enthusiasm when think that the sume creumstances viewing it, said its real place was which brought about the Russian in the Prado, but its transfer revolution could operate in this delicate problem. country. The Russian revolution was brought about by the despotic character of the Tsarist regime.

Those conditions did not operate i in this country. He hoped the Russians would realize that the

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English workers were putting up ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCHOOL

a fight and had made sacrifices to sce justice done to Russia, and that the Russians would drop the bsurd idea that they could or ganize a revolution in this country or dictate to an organization like theirs as to how they should con- duct their business.

BOOK.

Among the latest acquisitions of the British Museum is a Chinese. coffin with scroll ornament belong- ing to the Ta Tung period. A.D. 527-29, An interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities has also been |received, including Ushabti figures of unusual design ivory imple- ments used in the dance of the gods" to which magical properties were attributed: a wooden head- rest with a pillar' carved in the form of a lion-headed monster da- | vouring - a gazelle, and

a grey granite stele, in relief, of a boy At a meeting of the Board of offering flowers to his dead mo Trustees of the National Library the (18th Dynasty).

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It was found to be a school roll, Another important accession containing a number of sums in which the library has received is addition of fractions, but its the collection of papers belonging intrinsic interest is unimportant: to the Earl of Morton which were compared with the fact that ap- desiccated formerly at Dalmahoy House and parently hopelessly which have been purchased for leather can now be made flexible. the library. The collection com- prises a large number of docu.

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tions of ice, and anow, in bitter The Glen collection of Scottish cold, and largely at right and by music was given by Lady Doro lantern and flashlight. The clim thea Ruggles-Brise in memory of bers reached the edge of the ice- her brother, Major Lord George field in a blizzard, and first climb A lion-tamer in Rome has been rier and landed among the human foreseen that a lioness could over-

forming the

18ft. "Román leap Stewart Murray, of the Blacked the North Twin (12,085ft.) sent to prison for six months, actors

barricade. Film Watch. Viacount Lascelles has Then they marched all night and after a long trial, because his crowd." Signor Palombi, who directors and the owner of the presented a copy of a selection made a successful ascent of Mount lioness, Italian, white "acting was playing the part of Nero, llones were acquitted. It is un- from the papers of King George Statfield (11,820ft.), and finally for a "Quo Vadis film, took a (says the Central News) it was trainer le "provisional"; he may พร killed. For the defenes derstood that the sentence on the III. preserved in the Royal ar-reached the summit of Mount chives at Windsor.

Kitchener (11,700ft.) at 2.10 a.m: tremendous leap over a 18ft. bar-argued that no one could have be released very soon.