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Show RICH TAPESTRIES OF HAP SHORES ARE SEIZED 1 Most Superb Collection in the World Win Buy Flour chase, gib and Inheritance the House rl H of Hepsburg acquired the 900 or more ll H tapestries comprising the most superb 11 H collection in the world itn no-tub. , nl H 'hardly foresaw that some day. they II H 'vvouhi be pawned to buy bread for a II H jrnicceeding republic. II H BR1 l) ER1 BAD. 't'h reparations commission hauuc H given its consent, the government Is PI H now trying to raise enough money on j I ff these tapestries to purchase 50 000 l l fJ Iton.s of flour against the Imminent i IH nisiioa -npply on hand '-. , 4fl : bread ration has been reduced to 20 wheat flour content, wlih BD S svsbbbbbbbbI The best that can ho said of the re- jr Stilting bread Ms that a very hungry iV H person can eatTs Utile of It. 1 bbbbbbbbb! II is understood that a movement in H ton foot for the organization of an In- IH Itemational syndicate to advance the ; H required amount of cash. The plan P j H contemplates that , the tapestries t PH : pledged will he carefully selected from 9 BJ 1 Hon and those In part or in wholr j I H will be put on exhibition in the great t I of Europe and America. K 1 1 l i BY Ki BMC. For some months the finest of thes: .t weaves have been on exhibition In the palace here, exposed for the f first time to the public. Always the. j ,8 jH have been kept either In tbe liofburc MSBBBBBsl or Bchoenbrun palac-s. brought o. t on rare state, occasions In the days of lH the monarchy to decorate the great IH salons. The largest of them barely iH find space on the sidewalks of the jB vast apartments in the Belvedere. jH where dail-j hundreds of persons p IH the small admission fee to feast on LH the wealth of color, while In every jU |