GLOZEL CONTROVERSY
ARGUMENT REOPENED MINISTER TO INVESTIGATE (United P. A. —By Telegraph — Copyright.) (United Service) PARIS, Tuesday. The Glozel Commission, which is largely composed of pre-declared proGlozellians, after three days of digging, declare that the discoveries there belong to the Neolithic Age. The Minister of Education, M. Herriot, who originally annulled the order scheduling the site as a national monument after the International Commission had declared the discoveries to be valueless, now announces that he will visit Glozel after the general election.
Considering that the new commission’s finding reopens the question of the authenticity of the discoveries, the Minister says he is determined to clear up the controversy, in which the good name of French scientists is involved.
Several objets were found in September, 1927, at Glozel, a small hamlet near Vichy, France, which gave rise to the controversy referred to in the cablegram. The site was sequestered and scheduled by the French Government as ah ancient monument of national importance. The views of eminent archaeologists on the matter have differed widely. There seems to be no end of the controversy, some experts holding the finds to be genuine; others that the whole thing is a great hoax.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 332, 18 April 1928, Page 1
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