It is a matter of general know. ledge, says the "Morning Post Poking correspondent, that under the Manchu regime valuable _collections of porcelain, paintings, oilery, and other treasures were the Imperial Palaces at Mukden, Jehol, and Peking. With the exception of the Mukden collection, a portion of which could generally be seen on application to the office of the Manchurian Viceroy, these collections—were seldom or never accessible to the public, foreign or Chinese, Only on very rare occasions were any of the valuable collection of dynes: tic portraits at Mukden displayed The writer was fortunate enoweh to be in Mukden during the month that the International Plague Con. ference was in s.ssion there, when the local officials vied with each other in making the stay of their guests pleasant and interest ing. The Imperial Palace was specially thrown open for the benrfit of the foreign delegates, who were provided with competent guides and permitted to see far more of the Imperial collection than is generally shown to visitors, We were taken through room after room filled with priceless porcelain, shown over the buildings in which the Imperial genealogical records are stored in massive brass-bound chests, and privileged to see a number of Tmperia! portraits and relies unal from
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