A SACRED URN
Tour story of a sacred Japanese urn at present in Auckland makes interesting reading and the adventurous young American who was so successful in filching from the inner sanctuary of an ancient temple is to be congratulated on his daring. One wonders, however, in what light the good folks of Kyoto considered hexploit. l am sure that if .1 yellow gentleman disguised, as an Anglican
padre removed certain revered emblems from the altar of St. Mary’s, even though they were intended to grace a drawing room in far away Tokyo, the whole -city would be in an uproar at such desecration* Surely the verb “to steal” means the same in any country. To my mind there is something not quite cricket about such an action. ENGLISHMAN.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 10
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129A SACRED URN Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 10
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