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Show GOETHE COLLECTION IN FRANCE MAY BE SOLD AT AUCTION WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. Disturbed over reports that a valuable collection of Goethe relics la to be sold at auc-j auc-j Hon by the authorities of Lyons, j France, the American Peace society, ' through Its official organ, the Advocate i of Peace, is Instituting a campaign to i prevent what It regards as an impend- j lug calamity to the world of literature. litera-ture. . According to Information reaching the society, the Goethe collection was1 loaned by the Goethe miAteum of Frankfort to a French committee at Iyona for eshibltlon purposes In April, I 1014, a few months before the war. The i collection was seised during ths war I by the French government and now Is held for storage costs of (.Oft.OOO francs, i a sum which the Frankfort muaeum cannot pay with German currency at Us present low level. A direct appeal to President Mtlle-rand Mtlle-rand of France Is said to have been of no avail. The sale Is understood here to be arranged for October 28. |