A special correspondent to “The Times of India” cables from Naples:—

Baron Maurice de Rothschild, it is stated, has been fined 370,000 lire (about £3,700) and Ettore Pisani and Alfredo Campanelli, two commission men, have been fined 120,000 lire (about £1,200) each for violating the law prohibiting the export of works of art without permission.

It is stated that in conjunction, they exported the famous statue “Mother of Venus.”


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