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PEKING, Ist February. As an indication of the prevailing aneasiuess in regard to the political outlook in Korth China, the authorities of the Palace Museum, which 5r housed in the Forbidden City, have assembled 3000 cases of art treasures ia readiness for transportation by rail to Nanking or Shanghai. According to the Chinese Press, strict secrecy is being maintained about the precise hour of tlie departure of the special train which will carry the treasures south, as the authorities fear that public bodies here may attempt to prevent their removal from the former capital. Troops will guard the route over which the cases will be conveyed to the railway station, and street traffic willbe suspended while, the precious freight is put on the train. The treasures consist mostly of bronzes, porcelain, valuable State papers of the Manchu Dynasty, priceless books, including a monumental encyclopaedia, running into hundreds of volumes, one set of which was destroyed in the-Jap-anese bombardment of Shapei, Shanghai, last year. • s
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 7
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169TREASURES REMOVED Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 7
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