ART TREASURES
SALE IN BERLIN. CONFISCATED BY SOVIET. FORMER OWNERS PROTEST. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. BERLIN, Oct. 30. The announcement of the sale of 500 Soviet art treasures at Berlin on November 6, including the famous Houdon statues and well-known Dutch and Italian pictures, has aroused; a sharp controversy. The treasures are from the Hermitage and other Leningrad. palaces. Russian princes protest against the disposal of their personal property tinder the pleai. that the revolution justified the Soviet in confiscating the property on behalf of the Russian people. Repi-esentatives of princely families who re-ognise their Dictures and statues in the sale catalogue have initiatel a -lawsuit to decide their legality. They warn -purchasers that the validity of the biddings is liable to investigation in the German courts. 'lf the Berlin sale is successful it is likely to be the forerunner of numerous similar disposals of Russian treasures.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 7
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