The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-03-11
Asiatic Institute of New York
Demands Government Ac.
ton to End Vast Campaign
of Vandalism.
TEMPLES DESIGNATED
IN NAME OF SCIENCE
Compares Depredations With
Havoc Wrought by Goths
and Vandals on Shores of
The Mediterranean.

rBy LEASED Wire 10 Evening hcrnid'l
Vow York. March lin "a mono
l.r4nh called Plumber and ncsirnc-
lron of Antiu titles IN china, the
4, iutie institute ct New York calls
|attontion Ca the vandalism that mas
appcarsi IN china.
The statement places the response
ibnity for this situation ON the de-
.Fveiopment ct the present European
museum and coliccting system. y
constitutes ar appeal 10 nations y
J organizations to cali 20 halt tn inns
widespread plundcr. often involving
~lhloodsh"d. 900 the Interests Of science
and of fair play for china ana her
looming generations
Tho monograph contains private
ouicnl aud public papers u voices
China's protests thus:
.Thc Asiatic institute has received
Chinese protests dating back six
Years emphasizing Chinese ahhnr-
lrcuce OF the European system, whose
practices have nov invaded china
These practices are widespread pill
liaginR Of temples ana sacred places
nf the dead and other ancient works
n Africa and throughout Asia IN the
name OF superior civiliza ion, pun'-
1--we warfare science or other sub
tarfuRc. They protest against tho
Introduction into China of a foreign
conception o. time, of science ana nt
HISTORY hv newer nations whose sense
of antiquity as peculiarly cNenpliilci
lln their museum system enables them
leo participate iu and foster the de-
Isiruction and robbery OF hoiy things
The havoc and destruction referred
lto b. specified as follows;
"In tho Revolutionary intcrrceuum
l-hciuceu the winter of 19lI-l2 and
irhc summer ~ 1873. sculpture und
luthef antiquities native Go china un-
1crwent destruction ON "a large scale
lhy foreign and native yandals Zoo The
Interest of iurcian dealers and mu-
s,ums
"In 1913 there was "a general al
Vision among museums oi % W"rlo
including at least TWO American mu-
Ifemas of several hundred casca pt
sculptural fragments broken from
Ithe.r scutings by one and the Same
body of land1ls This evil has
grown up so suddenly u has come
iabout since i90S-that foreign peu-
pies and foreign governments nave
luot ~apprchcndcd O. 40 a e aware
OF IL except the museums involved
fheIr agents and intcrmcdlaries and
the alarmed Chinese
In % statement made to the Assoc
lciatcd pres. the secretary at the
Asiatc institute says:
"All signs seem To Indicate that
Appreciation have commenced upon
tho archaeological ana ART wealth Of
IChlna 60 un extent even greater than
lthc vandalism with which Europe
Visited tho arr and beauty of n
shores al the Mediterranean. The
market for chinese antiquities par-
lficuiarly sculpture came with me
rlosc 81 the Bussp-Jnpanese war, but
luo nation bears tho Stigma uf heine
lchief Naudal in china The market
We an international one. and has been
developed under japanese aud Eu-
t%rnpenn direction with Paris as head
quarters. So well has the market
been worked hy the dealers that the
Increase in prices of chinese sculp
ture In the past five or ~ Years has
been forty OF nifty times. For exam
lpie. one piece Of sCulptureh North
Wei umcs-gth century A. p-eeti-
mated So have cost 500 in China,
latter passing through only two or
three hands. 81 held by a dealer az
If16O00 one American museum has
Item stone beads broken from statutes
in tho Interior Of china All large
museums OF the world have, or are
acquiring similar fragments Coiioc-
. tors ana museums in America are
Handing special representative 70
China with large sums of money Go
huy. similar expeditions are settling
forth from Europe.
"Reaiiglng the menace 10 the sculp-
lures ~ China the Asiutic institute
} o. cooperating with the china Nonu-
menis s0ciety ~ Picking. whose com
mitiee Is composed 81 the foreign
ministers at Picking Of Great Rrit-
ain. Russia. America, France and
I Japan men who see the situation
close at hand and are aroused hy H.
ono remedy which the institute
proposes in o. appeal D. the return
60 China boy AN responsible guy ru
] mrutf md Institutions az stolen Chi
neso ANTIQUITIES In accordance with
. q precedent OF tho French Eoy-
eminent and Of tho Smithsonian in
example hF returning 90 China arr
. cheologlcnl and historical objects 81
witch sno boz been robbed %
(which had como into So possession
The institute proposes also. the
stopping of further irdiscrininaio
purchasing, canermily az broken
sculptures. 10 ita appeal for The
cooperation Of libraries, mufeumn.