Money and. Objets d'Art of Former Customs Commissioner XCDN. SPECIAL sevice Tokyo, Aug. 23.
A quantity of Korean art trea sures, many of them of great value, has been found in packing cases buried under rubbish in the bascment of the Prison Warder's Train ing School in Seoul, according to a dispatch to the "Asahi" from the Korean capital, and has been identified as the property of the late Sir MacLeavy Brown, once Commission er of Customs under the old Korean The cases were found when the basement was cleaned prior to re~ constraction of the building, which ig near the old West Gate of the Korean capital, They contained several Korean screens, Buddhist images and other art objects, and were turned over to the Foreign Department of the Korean Administration which will ship them to Miss Mary Brown, daughter of the late commissioner, who is said to live in London.
'An investigation also has' reveal fed that the late commissioner left a deposit of Yen 300,000 in the Seoul Branch of the Daiichi Bank of Tokyo, which, with accrued interes now amounts to Yen 500,000. Thi also will be turned over to the Jcommissioner's daughter, according to the newspaper, which does not explain how it happened that the art objects and the money remained 80 long unclaimed, The "Asahi" says Sir MacLeavy Brown left Seoul when Korea was annexed by Japan, after many years in the Korean customs service, and Jater served as an advisor to the Japanese Embassy in London—United Press.
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