BATTLEFIELD ARTIST.
TRACED TO PRAGUE. RELATIVES RECEIVE SKETCHBOOK. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, July 7. A sketch book found beside a dead soldier on a Palestine battlefield during the war has been returned to its owner by the Maharaja of Mysore, says the Prague correspondent of the Daily Herald. The artist Is Robert Hoffman, now living in Prague, who was a lieutenant In the Austrian army operating with the Turks and Germans in Palestine. The sketchbook was found by Lieu-tenant-Colonel B. P. Krishne Urs, a member of the Maharaja’s suite. The Maharaja himself decided to return the book to its owner, arid took it to Germany in 1930. Berlin military authorities turned up the war archives and finally traced Hoffman, with the help of the Austrian War Office.
Now, after 22 years, the book has been restored to the artist, whom the Maharaja has arranged to meet tn Europe this summer.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 12
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151BATTLEFIELD ARTIST. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20261, 2 August 1937, Page 12
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