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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10237, 28 August 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Thanks to tlio courtesy of Edouard .dc Rothschild, liis frictf just assisted at a trial of tliof traordinary system of proteou'it urcs that has over been invent* the corner of the Hue Balzac J Rug Faubourg St. Honore stun* geous mansion, one of the most J cent in Paris, surrounded I)}' " gardens. The mansion inn}',' scribed as a house within a h 0 the inner house Honore tie lit* father of realistic romance, kiW self by overwork at tlio a(! e Around this historic house thechikls have really built alio* have made gardens such as arc' no other city save Paris. All * rounded by a very high waft'. completely shuts off the view. <i home arc collected tlio pricele? ures of the Rothschilds—jewe tures, plate, and treasures of » And they are so arranged ' touching a spring they vanish' magic. The rooms are lined » walls, which rotate on pivots l '!) way that they close up and J trace whatever of any method* ment. The machinery is very * and is kept constantly in order., twice has Baron Rothschild 0 exhibition of the working <>f *J» derful walls to his astonished; All is so arranged that at a & nal the machinery''is put in nio| treasures worth billions are * within walls which apparently, immovable part of the more remarkable, the family ' be made to disappear so that . mises look as. though they.TO lutely deserted. The idea is-S revolt broke out this house W likely be one of the first % tacked. At the instant of dM machinery would be sprung 3 rioters should be a considerably .possession before they «'| i ' ( !;| treasures, if they could find'J all. Meanwhile the aiitliorit><J have ample time to arrive. J