PRICELESS RELICS
STOLEN IN TRANSIT SENSATION IN CHINA. SHANGHAI, May 8. (Received May 9, at 0.15 a.m.) Startling disclosures are expected as the result of Government investigations into charges that .millions, of dollars' worth of rare treasures, recently transported from Peking for safekeeping to Shanghai; following the Japanese invasion threat last year, have been secretly sold. The relics and treasures came from Peking museum palaces in special trains. Approximately 19,000 cases were transferred to special warehouses under guard, but it has > since been revealed that certain cases, instead of containing' priceless relics, are filled with junk, and Yih-Pei-Chi, the former head of the Peking Museum, has been charged with the theft thereof.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22257, 9 May 1934, Page 7
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