Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 26

TIMAY B DEAD N PANESE FIRE Dispatches Indicate 1,000 Homes Destroyed in South- ern Saghalien Island. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 31.—Japanese residents of Southern Saghalien Islana s=ught todsy for their lives and their homes against forest fires which were believed to have killed 100 persons and burned| more than 1,000 houses. Sparse dispatches to newspapers were | led to fear there had been & mMajor | pldike Howard. disaster. Communications on the island were badly crippled, with raliways block- | ed, telegraphs and telephones down, and only meager reports were obtain- able. A dispatch to_the newspaper Asahi| Shimbun. from Maokahama, a village near Esutori, said Maokahama had been | wiped out and that there were 100 dead and 1,000 houses burned. The newspaper Nichi Nichi said that 30 bodies had been recovered. A shift in_the wind carried the fires avay from Esutori and toward Maoka- hama. Survivors were suffering from hunger and exposure with their sole provisions scorched potatoes from the ficlds of burned-over farms. Disastrous fires have swept through- the island,” the dispatch said skics are black with smoke, ob- Jliterating the su It added that the blaze was spreading from Esutori to- ward Ohira, two miles to the south, W fighters were trylng desperately ave a coal mine. Tour Britain in Three Days. By a new airplane schedule Ameri- cans may now “see Britain” in three days. They may go from Southampton ) the spots associated with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, William Penn, Shakespeare, Burns and the Pil- grim Fathers, rounding off the tour with | gathered and filed through the castle THE EVENING STAR. "WASHINGTON, D. C. "FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929. By the Assoclated Press ARUNDEL, England. May 31—In a castle where brave knights of long ago courted fair ladies and entered great tournaments of strength, a young man vesterday celebrated his twenty-first birthday and thereby became the first | peer of Britain, the sixteenth Duke of | Norfolk. The celebration to which the towns- | folk of Arundel and all the countryside around flocked marked the assumption of the duties of state by Bernard Mar- The day was one of national significance because the duke, | the last of the long and powerful line | of the Howards that links today with | the earliest days of the British history, | not only._ comes into his own, but enters upon official tasks that the premier peer must assume, The town of Arundel is largely own- ed by the duke and the folk of all Su: sex County unfeignedly rejoiced with | him upon his accession to an inherit- | ance which, during his minority, hi been in the hands of trustees, includ- ing his mother and his uncle, Viscount | dukedom. Early Morning Gathering. Farly in the morning the people | ground: Many of them remember the rejoicing at the time of the boy's birth | 21 years ago, and they are glad to be among those to offer their first con- gratulations to the man. After a_sumptuous banquet tonight in the vast dining hall, where the lord lieutenant of the county, mayors, mag- istrates and the tradesmen-governors of the little town, that clusters on the Kill around the castle walls, will be guests, all participants in_the cele- bration will gather on the highest hill in the vicinity and watch the lighting of a great stack of wood. A roaring a flight to Croydon to catch an alr liner for the continent. 7 Flowered Crepe Canton Crepe Flat Crepe ARUNDEL CASTLE CELEBRATES ASSUMPTION OF NEW DUKE ;Splendor of (_)ld Times Revived as Great ‘ Crowds Gather at 21st Birthday of Ber- nard Howard. First Peer of Britain. Throughout the day the farmers of his lands, the retainers on the 49,000 acres of estate, the tenants of his hun- dreds of cottages stopped in the castle and met the duke in the baronial hall to take part with him in the historic event. Splendor of Old Times. Old Arundel Castle, part of which is the remnant of work done in Saxon times, has seen no such celebration since the fifteenth duke, Bernard's father, became of age in 1868, and the ancient old halls seemed to reflect some of the splendor of the olden times, All such parts of the castle that have been restored have been done in keeping with its history and are faith- have been vigorously denied. It is said he is not contemplating marriage at prese: T ung duke attended high mass at the Roman Catholic Church this morn.ng. after which he received birth- day gifts from the Mothers of Arundel. In the evening before going to light | | the bonfire signal he will take part in| Corpus Christi procession in the castle | grounds in which a number of Roman Catholic clergy and monks will partici- pate. 'MEXICAN BATTLE CONTINUES 2 DAYS| ‘Gundahjarn Dispatch Says Feder-| als and Irregular Rebels Are Fighting Bitterly. MEXICO CITY. May 31 (#).—Dis- | patches to Excelsior from Guad: today said that military headquarters | there had received reports of a bitter | | battle between federals and irregular | rebels at Cerro de la Villa, which began | Wednesday noon. ! Fitzalan, the heir-presumptive to the | flame will announce to all that the duke has reached man's estats ful copies of the original one. The narrow entrance hall on the west side, made small so that in times of attack A strongly fortified insurgent camp | was located by airplanes. A battalion in medieval days the castie entrance |Of infantry, two cavalry regiments and could be easily defended, is a relic of |an artillery unit were sent by the fed- Norman days. A wax figure of a man |erals to attack it. in the guardsman costume of the mid- | = dle ages is seated beside the hearth, seemingly ready to give the alarm of The new duke is of a shy disposition and has not been much secn in the social haunts that most of England's aristocracy frequents. After finishing | his schooling under private tutors he | joined the army and is in the Royal| 2747 & 4, 2748 = e ‘c}\‘fba;-‘il of his possible marriage | Our /4N has been the matter for much specu- | Combined Force A-nd lation, but rumors of his engagement Knowledge is Entirely to_a daughter of the King of Spain Devoted to = Washing Repairing Storing of YOUR RUGS North and North es Fitted Examined DR. CLAUDE S. 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