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Show GERMANS BURIN) ITALIAN BOOKS From Naples comes the news that the Germans have burned the library of the Royal Society 0f Naples, consisting of some 200,000 books and manuscripts, from Italy and every country of the world. Herbert L. Matthews, New York ' Times correspondent, says that he i has inspected the burned premises and that there is no doubt of the deliberate destruction. It is hard to imagine why any invaders take delight in destroying destroy-ing the cultural possessions of a country. It has happened before and it will happen again but the loss is shared, even by those who destroy. |