LOST £3,000,000 TREASURES
CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S LOSS. The disappearance of over £3,000,000 worth of precious objects during the transference of the Chinese State treasure from Peking to Shangai early in 1933 has just been discovered, according to letters received in Marseilles. The Chinese police are investigating and efforts are being made to locate the director of the museum and his secretary. The Imperial Treasure of Peking consisted of tribute levied, on subject princes over a course of many centuries, and was of such size and splendour that its value was incalculable. Early in 1933 removed to Shangai on the ground of a large quantity of the treasure was danger of a Japanese invasion.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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