PRUSSIA PAYS
EX-KAISER’S ESTATES TRUCKLOADS OF ART TREASURES AND £250,000 A FIRST INSTALMENT (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) Berlin, October 26. This week £250,000 is being paid the exKaiser as a first instalment and at the same time six castles and 250,000 acres go to the Hohenzollerns. Completion of the transaction enables the nation for the first time to realise the amazing bargain. As Prussia has a budget deficit the payments to the Hohenzollerns will mean extra taxation. The curator of the National Museum insistently demands before the castles are finally handed over that art experts should examine the contents, otherwise there is acute danger that 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 by J. B. Pater, missing from Potsdam Palace and priceless tapestries from another Berlin palace.—A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20012, 28 October 1926, Page 7
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