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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928.

DISCOVERIES OF ROY CHAPMAN 'ANDREWS.

PREHISTORIC MONSTER OF

TEN TONS WEIGHT.

Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, tho American explorer, has described

NEW ART MYSTERY IN GERMANY..

30 "VAN GOGH" PAINTINGS

·DECLARED FORGENIES,

Berlin, Nov. 28.

Berlin art dealers and collectors,

the finding, in the heart of the Gobi some of whom have been enjoying Desert, of the fossilieed remains of and others worrying over the great what he described as the "largest hoax to which art circles all over. animal yet, known to science"the world have fallen a prey in Italian monster 20ft. long and weighing buying works of the more than ten tons, which roamed sculptor Dossena and taking them original medieval art the world not less than eight or nine for million years ago.

treasures, are today troubled by now mystery. No fewer than 30 Van Gogh" paintings which are in the possession of various Ger man collectors are declared to be forgeries.

Mr. Andrews, who has fust re- turned from his fourth expedition into the Gobi Desert, In Mongolla, under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, gave a description to a Press representa- tive of some of his discoveries of the fossilised remains of probis toric, beasts, and of traces of a colony of human beings who lived in Mongolia about 26,000, years ago,

"We found," stated Mr. Androwe, "the bones of an entirely new pro historie mamal, the largest animal yet known to science. From the bones found we discovered that the monster, which roamed through the world not less than eight or nine million years ago, was 25 feet long and 14 feet high to the shoulders, had a nock 12 feet high, was as big as a freight ear, and weighed more than 10 tons."

The upper bone of its fore-leg, the humerus, was, he added, four feet long, and weighed 2001b,

"The monster," Mr. Andrews said, "is related to the rhinoceros family, but had a long neck, and fed on leaves from the treetops. The apocica died out, probably because it became too big to accure food."

Two Complete Skülla. Mr. Andrews and his little party of nine other scientists and 27 men found two complete akulls of the great beantwhich has not yet been given a namo--and enough bonos for the skeleton to be reconstructed.

The German public galleries. which only to-day have been admitting that none of Dossena's works have been accepted by them, are already on the defensive again; all the thirty Van Goghs in question are private German pro- perty, they state. The German art market will suffer considerably fu consequence.}

The thirty alleged Van Gogh paintings, all of which found their way on to the market through the same German dealer, gave such conviction to experts of their originality that the great Van Gogh connoisseur, the Dutch art historian, J. de la Faille, included them in a catalogue of the artist's paintings which he published. At

Van Gogh exhibition last year organised by a well-known Berlin firm of art dealers, however, nons of these alleged originals was When; therefore, some: hung. time afterwards many of there paintings were hung. In a Van Gogh exhibition at Hanover there was much talk among the initiated as to whether they were genuine or not.

Art Historian's View.

Do la Falla himself likewise A skeleton was found intact, but began to have..some doubt as to so immense was it that it was im- their origin, and about four possible to move it without more months ago, in conjunction with preparations. Mr. Andrews, how-the Gorman art connoisseur, Pro- ever, hopes to recover it next year. fessor Meier-Grafe, resumed his The skeleton was found on a hill-investigations into the matter top, with its hind lege in one ravine, The Dutch art historian transport and a front legs, in their proper ed some of the doubtful pictures position, attached to the skeleton, te, Holland, and has since been

then. examining

Now bo in another ravino 25 feet away,

Another discovery was a great announces that he is of opinion Mastodon a prohistoric elephant that these pictures, which are. with a paw eight or nine feet long alleged to have been originally in the possession of a Russian family, and shaped like a coal scoop.

In the same district the party are all forgeries, and the work of found traces of a great colony of people of the Stone Age.

one hand.

Professor Meler-Grafe, express "The various specimens are nowed his disapproval af Do la on their way to New York, but, in Falllo's hasty publication of his due course, duplicates will be dis-opinion. That the pictures ora tributed to foreign museums.

A SUSSEX "FIND."" ' Remains of a Prehistoric

Reptile,

Geological research in the strata of Wealden sand in a

quarry at Ridgewood, Uckfield, Sussex, now being excavated at the depth of 25 | feat, has resulted in the discovery of the remains of a prehistoric reptile. Somo objects of a bony nature were revented resembling the spinal vertebrae of a dinosaur, and ex- amination wad made by Sir A. Smith Woodward, formerly Keeper of Geology at the British Museum, who pronounced the vertebrae to be those of an iguanodon, a colossal fossil lizard. The iguanodon is believed in some cases to have been at least 80ft. long.

It is believed that this is the first fragment to be found near Uckfield; of this reptilian monster, the first discovery of which in Tilgato! Forest in 1822 by Dr. Mantell, of Lowes, opened a new chapter in geological history.

The vertebrae have been present- ed to the Brighton Museum.

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Squadron Leader Bert Hinkler was entertained at a dinner given. by Sir Charles Wakefeld at the Savoy Hotel recently and gave a đê- scription of his flight to Australia" in 15 days and a half.

He said that in London, before he left, the tyres of his landing wheels were pumped up and the air which had been put into them car- ried him right through to Mel- bourne At Melbourne, for the Arst time, English air was loosed in Australia: "I do not wish to make any suggestions," he said, "but the day after this English air was let out in Australia there was a fog."

He first object in going to Australia, he said, was to see his parents, and he took the quickest route.

Sir W. Sefton Brancker described Squadron Leader Hinkler as 4. superb engineer and navigator and a born airman.

Bir Charles Wakefield said that Squadron Lender Hinkler had ad- ded to the herafc legends of our race. The machine which carried him day after day so steadily in his flight to, Australia was British in every respect.

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