ART TREASURES ARRIVE
PERSIAN JEWELS IN LONDON. ARMED ESCORT THROUGH CITY. British Wireless. Rugby, Oct. 14. ■Art treasures valued at £2,000,090 were brought to the Royal Academy today from the docks at Rotherhithe, eight miles distant, in special vans with steel doors, and under armed police escort. They comprise the contribution of the Shah of Persia to the Persian Art
Exhibition that is to be held in London in January. The treasures were brought to London in the steamer Baharistan, the crew being unaware upon arrival that there
was aboard anything more precious than a cargo of dates. In Persia th® treasurer were conveyed to the. coast by air in order to avoid the possibility of bandit raids. *
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1930, Page 8
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