A dramatic confession by 2 priest has thrown some further rose depredations on the an light on the doings of the gang cient art treasures in French churches are beginning to assume the proportions of a national scandal. Another branch of the business is the ''faking'' of antiquiries and disposing of modern imitations as the real thing. The facts are only just beginning to leak out, but, from what is already known, there is strong reason to suspect the existence of an organization controlled by one man and having ramifications -.li over France. At present, two distinct affairs are engaging the attention of the judicial authorities in Paris: the sale to the Louvre Museum authorities of three bas-reliefs which are strongly suspected of being modern fakes, and the removal, from the church of Saint Sauveur, neat Melun (Seine-et-Marne) of a 13th-century statue of the Virgin and Child
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