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HUMPHREY BOGART

INGRID BERGMAN in "CASABLANCA'

The Treasures

PIECE of fossilised brown

bone, something like a mis-shapen coconut shells, rests in a cardboard box in a emiall villa of the German University town of Benn.

It is the Neanderthal Skull, two pounds of bone without price, which the British Army recovered from its wartime hiding-place,

Ger-

The skull was found by a man professor in 1850 in a chalk pit near the hamlet of Neanderthal. Ils discovery opened the door to a now selentiic examination of the development of man and is the basis on which much of our know- ledge of prehistory rests.

Other skulls-the Peking Man, the Java Man, the Piltdown Man- found at a later date added to the store

90 Britons tell the story

of trigger-happy Palestine

'Don't go out until it stops shelling'

“ISS ELLI KERN, 41-year- Agricultura{l Department.

M

In

old house matron of the Jerusalem, and living in the city's Bishop Gobat School, was Greek colony, 21 miles from his one of the party to arrive at

offer.

London Airport in the last three "No buses have been rumming, and 40 plastres civillan evacuation planes out of taxi to the office costs

(8) for the trip," he said.

Palestine. She had not slept for four nights because of the nolso of bombs and explosiong.

"If you go out for a walk in Jerusalem today you go in groups. As you might say in England. 'Wo

A week before she had to can't go out now, wait until the rain leave her school, which sits on until it stops shelling.'

stops, in Jerusalem you say, 'Walt

Mount Zion in the Arab section

of Jerusalem. There were only "Wherever you go there are men with Sten guns at the reads, All the

a few pupils left anyway, be hotels are shut."

cause few of her 90 boy boarders tame back after the Christmas

holidays.

After dark FIFTY-YEAR-OLD E. J. Pritchard,

All the windows and doors of I chief engineer of the Post office the school, which faced in Palestine for the past seven years, Jewish quarter; had been blown said: out by mortar bombs. Miss Kern packed up. She put all her furniture, books, and bed

rooms and ding into three bricked them up.

"One local cinema, the Regent wes all open. I saw Junior Miss' there the other day. But the Rex Cinema had been burned down. It was an In the wake of the British nigh inaccesible, as when a convoy

Arab-patronised elnema, owned by armies, from the first cam- steep cart tracks barely wide enough had to be backed three miles up à

a Jew, and was burned by Jews. paigns in North Africa to to take the trucks, to reach the Then she left, with two suit-

"It's odd the way thinks work the last battles in Ger- castle in which pictures and ancient

cases of personal clothing, for out in Palestine.

some salent.

•

when you are playing bridga......

many, went anxious ex- manuscripts had been stored.

Another time a bunker dug into the shelter of St George's "After dark you hear bullets 'perts on fine arts, monu. a hill and facing an ideal parking Cathedral buildings in Jeru- whipping through the trees even ments and archives, site was found to contain striving to safeguard the long-sought exemples of French treasures of history: the arrived to collect them he found in the Holy Land. She walked to

painting. When Maior L. G. Perry Miss Kern did her last shopping All the trigger-happy people are out ancient pillars and mosaics, that the Americans Army had the shops 10 minutes

in away

at night.

"By tiny you can still get a good of Libya, the galleries and cleared the site and established & Minumlilah Road, passing three road- meal at the Villa Rosemary, a drink monasteries of Italy, the gun park. The American battery blocks. Each Ume her identity was at the Sports Club bar. And you can museums and church relics commander took quite a lot of por-checked. Spinneys', the big store, play tennis or football and see Arabs suading before he agreed to move was no longer open: Cook's Tours and Jews blazing away at each other of Germany.

out his 155's and allowed the ple- had closed. The Arab workpeople only half a mile away." In Italy and Germany art tures to be taken to the main col- are too frightened to go to work. treasures were dispersed lectins castle of Grevenbroich. in More shops are closing cach day.

And cigarettos the Rhineland. and hidden as the war ໂຕ this castle until recently Barclays Bank, heavily guarded, neared: This article tells guarded by a company of the Black was open. "Everybody pushed. They OM those two men and a woman there came, too, a report on: a British team in Watch, are housed such famous don't know what an orderly queue CIGARETTES: Plentiful-but alt Germany sought out the pictures ns Rembrandt's "Self-Por- is," said Miss Kern. "I drew live in the binek market. Arabs used to trait," Renoir's "Mr and Mrs Sisley." English pounds to come home. The call at the door with sacks full of hidden valuables to pre- and works by Rubens, Gauguin and Arabs, scared that the bank would popular brand cigarettes at vent their deterioration, Van Gogh.

close, tried to draw all their money." shillings for 20.. Most of them were loss by smuggling or

The castle is also the temporary As she left the bank, shooting started looted Nauf supplies." home of Essen Cathedral's 11th Cen- 200 yards away, authorised sale.

Madonna. This figure wood, plated with gold, is perhaps The telephone at the school hus the finest example of church sta-worked on only four days since tuary of that perlod in existence, Christmas. Each time the line was "No value can be placed on it repaired it Was either cut or or other relles of a past nge," said blown up. Mr Hartley.

how of knowledge, but Pithecati- thropus Neanderthalensis was the oldest of them all.

Selence probed the ground around the chalk pit and added chapter after chapter the story. Pith Nean had a museum built for him and was housed in splendour.

up

Then he disappeared from his old haunts and eventually

turned at Bonn, where he remained until 1039 when he was evacuated. First he went to live in an ancient Westphalian castle. From there. carefully packed in a wooden crate,

DONALDMANNANCIA

By JOHN HUGHES

un-

he went to another German castle, in which they live is wild, gloomy, Three or more transfers followed hemmed In by lowering hills, until, towards the end of the war, watered by a roaring river which he was buried in a deep bunker at races to join the Rhine,” Siege, in the Rhineland.

60,000 Years' Old

The Neanderthal Skull has market value; it belongs to kind.

no

man-

arc

י

tury

of

might be worth

£500,000 or £50; it all depende Postmen were afraid to go to the

one's sense of artistic values."

milkman

Among the other treasures recu-their

school, tradesmen would not deliver

bills. Only the vered are statuettes of St Ursula and the "11.000 virgins" from the risked the journey on a donkey. Church of St Ursula" inTM Cologne.

An Englishwoman

İMR.

Prices rise

two

RATES are not being paid, there is no money to pay municipal workmen.

LIGHTS may go out soon because there Is shortage of oll for generators.

*

"That is the story of the -00-who went home. Many have sunk ther lives trying to weld Arab and Jow. WAR F. R. MASON went home to For them it was heartbreak. They

Green, OT Ursula was an English woman | VI Laverstock same

Herts. left Paldstine, bating their failure- ST of the Items In the who in the seventh or eighth cen-week before he was in the yet glad to be out. urray of art treasures

grimage to Rome with 11 virgins.

In

In the

WHILE battles raged, the skull, some

more than 40,000 years old, re- vast

class

mained undisturbed--and forgotten. which the British Army has been try set out from Britain on a pil-

were

With the surrender of Germany, recovering, for the last two years. She was killed at Cologne by the men had time to think again about from Gernra castles, mines, deep suns and her companions massa- Pith Nean, but no one knew where air-raid shelters and remote dwel ered. By a monk's error the num- he was. British Army intelligence lings in the forests. Unofficially ber of the virgins grew from 11 to told that he had been sold and irreverently, this project (now 11,000-possibly an early Guebbels during the war for an astronomi- In its last stares) has been known thought that a thousand-fold exog-

sun to n collector who wus as Operation Rattic.

serajlon bud Kreater propaganda gloating over him in secret.

If art can be measured by the ton value. Then one fine day, recently, an it is correct to say that 1,000 tons Army truck drow up at the Bonn of the most prized paintings, statues, Muscunt and a bored driver asked church relies and holy images have for a signature for a "few boxes" now been tracked down, collected he hind collected from the Ameri- and stored until the churches, art

the foundations. Opened by cans for delivery to the Curator.. galleries and museums from which offells of the Monuments, Fine The Curator, Dr Edward Neuffer, they came can house them again. Aris and Archives Division, they signed and took the boxes into his The lob began when Major H. were found to contain the bones of offler. Inside, one he found Pith Murray-Baille of the

Intelligence

12. women, dend these many hun- Nean, safe and sound.

Corps and Majors L. G. Perry and dred years, K. E. Steer, all pence-time art ex-

"So I put him in my cupboard," he said. "He's safe enough there. perts, were ordered to trace the He can't be sold on the Black Mar- treasure which the Germans ro- ket."

moved for safely from the big towns. Hugo Dumps

At Neanderthal, Pith Nean's ori ginal home, the museum is visited

A curious confirmation of the story came to light recently when workmen clearing the site of blitzed St Ursula's Church found 12 graves

Apart from art treasures Major Murray-Baille and his ndblatants have recovered the archives

and registers of many German provinces and towns. Also discovered were valuable old Biblical manuscripts, by numbers of troops who alzo WITH a dozen trucks and about 20 including a beautiful Codex of the inspect the two "Ice-ago" horses men at his disposal, Major Mur- Gospels, written in the 10th century. and the herd of bison which roam rag-Dallic got to work sifting masses Its gold leaf decorations and is the valley.

of information, checking rumours, Imperiul purple borders are as fresh The horses, direct descendants questioning hundreds of Germans, today as when they were limued of those which roamed Europe and and maintaining contact with the by n devoted band of monks more Asta more than 60,000 years ago, Americans, who had huge dumps than 1,000 years ago.

pot-bellled,

recovered shaggy-coated, of long-tailed beasts with massive Bavaria.

are.

Art treasures

heads. They crop contentedly in Omeluls of the Monuments, Fine the

valley, utterly indifferent to Arts and Archives Division of the visitors. There are only 19 others Control Commission, with Mr S.F.C. left in the world-mosily in Russia. Hartley-one of the foremost ex- Around them milis a herd of wild perts on German church treasures— bison, from whose ancestors all the at their head, worked with Major world's cattle developed. They are Murray-Baillo establishing exactly flerce, untamed and ready to attack what had come from where. Some at the drop of a hat. The valley times the hiding-places wore well-

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Of all these things, only two pieces were damaged in transit, although the only packing wag the Army blankets.

Many of the paintings_require restoration because the Germans had stored them badly.

"Now that we have recovered the treasures it is up to the Ger- mans to restore them to condition,” said Mr Hartley.

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