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COLONEL HILL.
FURTHER DETAILS OF
SHANGHAI TRAGEDY.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927.
THE ELGIN MARBLES.
SHOULD THEY BE RETURNED TO GREECE?
Further details of the tragic, All the experts are agreed that death of Colonel Charles S. Hill, the biggest storm ever known in Commanding Officer of the Fourth Regiment of the United States the world of art is brewing. For Marines, senlor Marine officer in the first time in history all classes Shanghai and one of the most of people are likely to find an popular and efficient officers of acute interest in art and to be the entire U. S. Marine Corps, are involved in a fierce controversy, contained in Shanghai exchanges to hand. The Shanghai Times Should the famous Elgin Marbles, now in the British Museum, be re- the turned to Greece, it will be biggest and most sensational loss of treasures this country has ever suffered, says a special corres- pondent in a Home paper.
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Col. Hill was found dead in his room at Regimental Headquarters Mess, 888 Avenue Foch, by Dr. Jones, American naval medical officer attached to the Fourth Regiment, Col. Hill was lying on the floor. In the right hand was
The people of Greece are asking an automatic pistol, Since his for the return of these glorious arrival in China Colonel Hill had sculptures on the ground that been suffering from ill health. they desire to reconstruct the The first intimation of the Parthenon. On the other hand. tragedy came when Dr. Jones authorities in Britain declare that heard the body of Col. Hill fall even if the request were granted, to the floor. The time was 3.28 such reconstruction could not a.m. and at the same hour, more be completed. than 2,000 miles distant, the ship earrying the wife of the brilliant officer was nearing the port of Honolulu. Mrs. Hill was en route to Shanghai to join her husband, who came here during the turbul- ent days of last February as Com- mander of the 4th Regiment, Col. and Mrs, Hill, it was learned, were married five years ago and were childless,
Shortly after the discovery of the body, Mrs. Hill was notified by wireless of her husband's death.
It was stated on good authority that Col. Hill will be buried in the United States and that Mrs. Hill will probably stop off at Honolulu until the arrival of the remains.
According to Lieut.-Col. F. D. Kilgore, who succeeds Col. Hill as Commanding Officer of the Ameri- can Marines, the latter had been in poor health since his arrival in China and was constantly under medical care but steadily grew' worse, a condition over which he worried.
Outstanding Career.
In any event, the ultimate de- cision" will rest with Parliament, and it is felt to be certain that the treasures will not be returned until it is quite clear that it is the unmistakable wish of the na tion.
Hence, there is no doubt that it will become a national question. We might lose great works of art with some complacency, for We cannot help ourselves.
Individuál pictures at the best make but a limited appeal; even experts differ sharply concerning their particular merits. The cir- cumstances involving the Elgin Marbles are entirely different. A national Since they became possession they have been regard- ed as an institution and a part of our life and literature. They inspired Keats, and have added some of the most exquisite essay's to English literature. They have also been an unfailing source of encouragement and inspiration to artists.
It has often been said that the Elgin groups have been the only sculptures in our national collec- tions in which the general public'
an interest. The the have taken
The service career of Col. Charles Sanderson Hill has been an outstanding one and rumours from Washington were to effect that he was shortly to have claim is borne out by the records been elevated to the rank. of of attendance.. Brigadier-General. At the time
Fof his death he was. 60 years old.
Their Saviour.
Col. Hill was born in New
We owe those treasures to Lard Hampshire on July 4, 1867. Dur Elgin, who knew that France was ing his long Marine service he coveting them and that they were took an active part in various to be obtained, and he proceeded, campaigns including service, dur-at his own expense, to secure ther ing the Boxer Rebellion, in the for Britain. They were brought Philippines, the Spanish-American War and overseas services during to this country in 1812 in eighty chests, and Parliament paid £35,- the Great War.
Prior to the Spanish-American 000 for them, or less than half the War he served as a naval cadet sum they had cost the noble lord.
and as an officer during the war. Their history in this country In April, 1899 he accepted a com- has been romantic. Keats was. mission in the U.S.M.C. remain- deeply stirred to noetry by them.. ing in that branch of the service Goethe was glad he had "lived continuously. During the Boxer long enough to see them," and pro- Rebellion he was aboard ship in posed that every German sculp- Asiatic waters, After service intor should be financially helped the Philippines he became Marine to go to London to study them. Fleet Officer of the Pacific Fleet, taking an active part in the com- paign in Nicaragua in 1912.
On
the act of bringing them to Eng- It is worth recalling now that
land was not regarded as an act of vandalism. In fact, it is sed world the transference of the recard that "throughout the civili- Parthenon sculpture to an invioi- able aaylum was hailed as a great era in the history of art. Britain was everywhere praised as the saviour of precious treasures.
Served in Great War. During the Great War he was attached to the Allied armies as an observer in France, a post at which he won laurels. Following the Great War, Col. Hill was ap pointed Commanding Officer of the Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1923 to 1926. He At the time of their arrival the was then transferred to San Diego sculptures were valued by the as Commander of the Fourth celebrated Canova ata hundred brought to China last February, offer an estimate of their present Marines, which organization he thousand pounds, but no one will when foreign service men were worth..Art values have increased needed.
enormously, and time continues to wonderful fragments; they are add fortunes to the worth of these no more than pieces.
the U. S.
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Big, bluff, hearty and sincere Col. Hilt was highly popular with both officers and men and was considered a "man's man."
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The beautiful model of the chamber where the Elgin Marbles the repose helps the average layman The remaina were removed to
to understood their sigalicence the parlours of the International That is why thousands who have as he can no other works in stone. Funeral Directors in Klaochow Road and will be kept there until source of deep pleasure in linger- no art knowledge still find a definite instructions are received ing among them. It has become from Mrs. Hill.
During his stay in Shanghai Col.without the Elgia Marbles when Impossible to think of Britain Hill made a wide circle of friends we think of her glorious treasure not only those of his countrymen houses. but of other nationalities as well.
True, Byron was very indignant that we had secured them, but hia Capt. and Mrs. McCallum and was a voice in the wilderness. Messrs. N. G. Lovell and F. Rum.He charged us with having torn sey Williams, who are motoring the last poor plunder from a from Peking to London, arrived in bleeding land." Against this we Kuala Lumpur, says the Malay have the assurances of past and Mail, and remalued for a short present authorities, who agres while before les ing for Port Swet that had Britain net preserved the 22nd September tonham. They will sail shortly for Marbles they would probably Burma and India and hope to reach have been lost for ever. The England in January, their start Greeks were neglectful or Turks from Peking having been made in might have ruthlessly destroyed May. All the party were much im them or handed them over to the pressed by the beauty of Malaya, highest hidder without "scruple, the cleanliness of our towns, and the while Franco was certainly an-. evidences of the country's pros-xloys to acquire them for Paris... perity. They are using two cars, a six and a two-seater, both Buick "Master Sixes," and have, so far had a wonderfully interesting and enjoyable trip)
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