RARE TREASURES
LOST FROM PEKING SEQUEL TO REMOVAL CASES CONTAIN JUNK MUSEUM HEAD ARRESTED (By Telegraph—Preas Association —Copyright! Received Mav 8, 11.58 p.m, SHANGHAI, May 8. Startling disclosures are expected as a result of Government investigations into charges that millions of dollars worth of rare treasures recently transported from Peking for safekeeping Shanghai, following the Japanese invasion threat last year, have been secretly sold. The relics and treasures came from the Peking Museum and palaces in special trains. Approximately 19,00(1 cases wore transferred to special warehouses under guard, but it has since been revealed that certain cases, instead of containing the pr.celess relics, are filled with junk. Mr. Yihpeichi, former head of the Peking Museum, has been charged with the theft of the missing treasures
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 7
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