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Show IN flnM LOOT British Dea'ers.Get Cream of Plunder GalherecJ in Baltic Stales LIBAU, Latvia, Im-. is The ap- j pearanoe of the shop windows here indicate that tin Llbaji tradesmen have received sbihe or (!! piupfde' 'aketi by the Various armies that have swept over the Baltic states. They are piled high v.;ih antique furniture fur-niture from country estates. Statuary, silver a-id bronze ornaments, silverware silver-ware ar.d Jewelry also abound In the commission housi r nvth.'I i S mn GU . i P. English dealers in antiques overran the Baklc staiei after they first freed themselves of the Bolshevik regime ami picked tip much of the valuable furniture and th jewels, oriental ruga and oi l shiver Consequently, ihe . shops now offer fewer rare pieces , than they did a year ago Besides the war loot, the shops car- i ry an amazing lot of second-hand wares, which were I lit- property ot persons Impoverished by war who must now convert them into money. Luxuries went first, but now furs, fui coast and all :oris of wearing apparel are being sold in the shops. These stores look like American rummage .'-ales. FEAR HI Mild 1TION. It is common for prosperous looking look-ing strangers who are Inspecting shop windows to bo approached bj owners of rare old furniture or works of ari who desire to offer Lhoir precious possessions pos-sessions at private sale without the humiliation hu-miliation of placing them on sale where their friends wj'i recognise t hem. The shops of Libau are much th same as those in Riga. Wlndaw and " ell ics of Ksthonia and Lithuania. Conditions were the same In Mos-cow Mos-cow ami Petrograd until the sbvlel shops, seized their stocks and forbade trade which was not conducted i.v the government. |