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Show AMZKICAN SUSPECTED OF LOUVRE THEFT V'EW YORK. Aug. 11. William Loan. Jr.. collector of Iks port, hss announcsd that aa American connoisseur, now In Xureps, la under survenisace by foreign . agonts of tha American aovemmsnl. co- KMraflti with the Vnencti voveinttnent. In the asarch for ths picture "Mona Lisa." ' I.eecarao da VInct's masterpiece, which e'sappesred from ths Louvre ten dsys sgo. The collector declined to make public his name, but said he waa a resident of a western city. The presence In Parle st ths time." Hr. Loss. said, "may be purely a colncl-denos. colncl-denos. ws are informed, however, he was apparently e close student of the rntlng and talked a great deal about It. waa expected he would reach New Tork yeelerday oa the Kaiser Wllhelm II.. but ke was not aboard. I first heard oa Monday of the watch placed oa him." |