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...Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of Mongolia left their herds of horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts (tents) on the plain, capped themselves with full-dress peacock plumes and crowded into the council chamber. There under a portrait of the Panchen Lama sat Prince Teh Wang who for months has been trying...
When the Allied soldiers broke into Peking's Forbidden City in 1900, they found in that square mile of yellow-tiled palaces the greatest assemblage of treasure in the modern world, collected for over 250 years by the Manchu Emperors. Ever since the fall of the Empire in 1911 bits of that treasure have been dribbling away, though not quite as fast as certain dealers would like collectors to believe. Six months ago when the remnant was moved from Peiping to Shanghai in fear of Japanese invasion, it occupied over 4.000 packing cases, was valued at $20,000.000 (TIME...
...Manchukuo. Of the portions of the treasure which he was able to carry away, large sections went to Japan, other pieces were sold to private dealers. Last week citizens of Seattle trooped into Volunteer Park to inspect the brand new Art Museum, gaze in admiration at many of these Manchu driblets. The $300.000 building was a gift of Mrs. Eugene Fuller and her son Dr. Richard E. Fuller. Director of the Institute and Professor of Geology at the University of Washington. Gem of the Fuller collection and chief treasure of the new museum in a consultation room brought intact from...
...sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell, her Governor, famed War Lord Tang Yulin who received correspondents fortnight ago confidently seated on an antique Manchu Throne, seemed to be in a befuddled stupor-possibly from opium which, as Jehol's chief crop, is supposed to have made Tang a Chinese silver dollar millionaire...
Amos 'n' Andy, The Jesters Trio (Tastyeast), Fu Manchu (mystery, advertising Italian Balm...