The Italian ste, Leonardo da Vinei, which left Genoa for London on December 3 with a congo of some 350 pictures and other works of arty worth millions of pounds, for the exhibition that is being held here: from January to March next year, arrived at Gravesend to-day.
As the vessel hove.in view flags were dipped in salute while the hooters of factories and the stress of ships were blown, shrieking hearty weleom An officer said that the voyage had been a terrible one owing to the heavy seas running, but all the pictures were safe and the crew unhurt. A tug should have piloted the Leonardo da Vinci throughout the voyage, but it went off in response to an S.0.S, signal from, a distressed ship.
"Our anxiety in battling the gale he went gri, "was all the greater because we' knew that our was perhaps the most pre ip, had ever carried.
Even voyage was fierce and the tides were against Professor Modi director of the Brera Gallery at Milan, who never consignment sine special train consisting of 10 trucks has accompanied the argosy to Eng-Tand, together with a police official of high rank.
When the train with the art treasures arrived at Genoa it was a slow and delicate business loading: the Leonardo da Vinei with its pre= cious. freight, on which the insurances amounted to between £3,000, 000 and £4,000,000. Up till the time of the ship's departure the entire dock was surrounded by Fascist militiamen in steel-helmets.—Reuter,
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