VALUABLE VASES COMING TO MUSEUM
Received Tuesday, 10.20 p.ib. SYDNEY, April 29. Two thouSaitd year old vases valued at £2000 'are being takeh to the Canterbury Museurn by Mr. j. F. JphnSon, of the Friends Ambulance Unit, who arrived in Sydney today by the steamer Taiping from China. Mr. Johnson was given .tliem by the New Zealander Rewi Alley whom he met in Chinghai on the borders of Tibet, He saW there niany more art treasures of the Ming dynasty which wei'e found in the ruins of an old city on the edge of the Gobi dese'rt. "ReWi Alley goes out occasionally and digs some up, " said Mr. Johnson. "The city died when the Water dtied up. . It is on the old silk route 011 the traclc of Marco Polo. " Mr. Johnson has travelled nearly 50,000 miles through China from Burma to the Rtissian borrfer and from Tibet to the coast. .
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 April 1947, Page 8
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