ARMED GUARDS.
COLLECTION OF VALUABLE PICTURES.
SPECIAL VAN FITTED OUT
ited Press Aseocifitian—By Electric Telegrnpr Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 2.5 p.m., to-day. LONDON, Nov. 25.
Armed menn will be concealed in a specially constructed motor van which is leaving London shortly to collect pictures worth £5,000,000 from public galleries and private collections in England and Scotland for an exhibition of Dutch masters at Burlington House in J anuary. The motor van is fitted with special springs and a padded case for each of the three hundred pictures. There will be armed guards, including local police, day and night.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 November 1928, Page 9
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99ARMED GUARDS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 November 1928, Page 9
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