ORIENTAL TREASURE WITH NO OWNER
-• . . * •' '% Receiyed Thursday, 7.10 p.m. . VANCOUVER; April- 24. Customs officials are. facefi with the. prohlem of disposing of over half a million dollars worth Oriental gems r.iyl art treasures-c which ?the • Freiich banker; Henri Bar,-'wfis taking home to France from' Shanghai in a snjall freighter .which has just arrived at Vancouver. Bar did not return from a waik on deck when the vessel was six days out from Shanghai and it is thought he fell overboard during . rough weather. The French Consul a,t Vancouver said Bar I was head of the Franco-Chinese Bank j at Shanghai. He was . - a > widower j whose only son was killed during the | war. There are no known heirs. i Under Canadian law, if no heir is ! found the treasures should he kept ! 30 days and then placed under ! King's hond to he auctioned later, j the proceeds to go to the Canadian i Government.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 April 1946, Page 5
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