COMPENSATION TO HOHENZOLLERNS
CHEQUE FOR £250,000 PAID
EX-KAISER
ART TREASURES LOST TO GERMANY
BY Telegraph.—Press association Copyright.
Berlin, October 26.
This week a cheque of £1250,000 was paid to the ex-Kaiser as the first instalment of his compensation. At the same time six castles and 250,000 acres of land go to the Hohenzollerns. The completion of the transaction enables the nation for Ihe first, time to realise the amazing bargain. As Prussia has a Budget deficit, payments to the Hohenzollerns means extra taxation.
Dr. Bode (curator of the National Museum) insistently demands that, before the castles are finally handed over, art experts should examine the contents, otherwise there is acute danger that the most valuable national possessions will be lost to Germany. Seventy trucks of pictures, tapestries, porcelain, and antiques have already gone to Doorn. Among the missing art objects are three dozen pictures bv J. B. Pater, missing from the Potsdam Palace, and priceless tapestries from another Berlin palace.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 28, 28 October 1926, Page 11
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