PLIGHT OF AUSTRIA.
THB NATIONAL ART TREASURES. (By C»bl*—Pr««» AeßOci*ticrn —Copyright.) t"The Times.") VIENNA, January 6. Tho Government is unable to pay full civil eervico salaries. and it> is impossible to collect taxes. notes are rapidly dropping in value. World-wide interest is aroused in tho matter of tho disposal of national art treasures. Two French members of tho Repatriation Committee are engaged on tho tremendous of valuing tapestries. There are £12,000.(100 worth of pictures and sculptures, while tho value of old arms and jewels eannct be estimated. Thero are also millions of volumes of rare and valuable books, and tens of thousands of engravings and manuscripts. Even if the sales extended over a number of years it is feared thev would greatly lower art prices. TTie latest proposal is that the Allies should take over tho whole of the collection and hold it as security for feeding Austria.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19200109.2.65
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16727, 9 January 1920, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
148PLIGHT OF AUSTRIA. Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16727, 9 January 1920, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in