Show Shansi Vandals Chop Heads Head Off Of Stone Sales to Curio Dealers F Follow Monuments Desecration of f G The UP-The UP-T UP le l heads ads of C six ninety tone stone t ne Bud which havo 1 0 6 survived r for or ro fourteen centuries J Jcl in a i. i cl cliff near Hear ratting Tatung northern S Shansi b been cn cut off ott by of fi- fi n corrupt officials who oti- oti sold t the heads to t curio curIo dealers according accord accord- ing to an Investigation 11 t m made by the hie he Society for the th-e pr Preservation bJ of oC Ancient Objects here herc The desecration o of these monuments ett merits ments which are aro rc regarded as the el earliest JeM pec specimens of arlIn art arl artIn artIn In China Chinn has aroused ni much feeling among local scholars and tho gov- gov o of Shansi Is being energetically ur urged ct to punish the he offenders The The cl discovery coel of or tho the desecration was made dc by i a Chinese scholar scholm In who recognized the stone atone tonch h heads of oC the Tatung Buddha in a al l local cal curio shop He Ic reported the thc matter to Dr Chiang min mm- minister ister of ot education of-education who wired to the thc I s society ely hero to Investigate The ll society sent a representative c t to Tatting Tatung TatuM who ho visited d th the cliff cm In which h tho thousands of these had hail been put more than 1000 years ears ago Tie The people there reported that hat the hc first Ir f heads were cut off last May Ia when hen henan an an officer with a a troop hoop of or soldiers and a a curio dealer ar arrived nl- nl ar- ar rived and hacked Oft off CC the heads As nothing lapp happened rec local officials encouraged d to break reak off oc a n few heads for themselves t The Tim The B c have been famous In China for untold centuries HunI Hundreds Hun Hun- of thousands thousand o of pilgrims have I journeyed to tho cliff f to bow before them 1 The shrine Is is' still very popular pop pop- tiIa ular wih with Chinese se Buddhists and Chinese Chinee and amid foreign students of archeology h There seems Beems little hope at al this l late te date date- of discovering C. C the time vandals vandal and punishing the them |