Show Communists Comm Believed to Be Burning Burn ng Valuable Homes of Wealthy English Families Fam lies Ancient Habitats of Prominent English Families DIsappear Dis- Dis Disappear Succession Aroused By B appear appear in Rapid Suspicion Succession Suspicion Similarity of Soap Fires Fires Soap Box Orators Advocate Replacing British Flag With Red Soviet Flag ny BY JESSIE HENDERSON The New Yorker r Abroad Special Dispatch to The Tile Stand Stand- Examiner ard-Examiner ard 1926 By The Consoli- Consoli Consolidated Consolidated dated Pre Press s Association NEAR LOWESTOFT LOWE LOWE- LOWESTOFT LOWESTOFT Suffolk England March Marc Are 6 C Are the ancient homes o of the English aristocracy being burned burneby by the communists under Instructions Instructions from Russia It would be too melodramatic a question It J the facts were not nomore more melodramatic yet et et and if 1 the question were not asked by byone byone byone one ot of o the aristocrats aristocrat ar h whose homes have recently been dc de- de destroyed destroyed Nearly every ever week eek lor for more moreth th than n two months one of the fine old manor homes which constitute constitute constitute tute the chief historic and archi archi- architectural architectural Interest of England has bas gone up In flames In every case the fire tire was of obscure origin Gen Gen- Generally Generally its cause has been laid some some- somewhat somewhat what what vaguely aguel to crossed wires That the wires run straight to Mos Mos- Moscow Mos Mos- Moscow cow and were ero pulled by the hand o of the Russian communist party Isa Is a 8 thought freely expressed In the vicinities where bere the th tires fires e oc oc- oc occurred e ORIGIN Hall the two hundred two old year old m mansion o ot of the Gooch baronets was destroyed recently The like ire fire like most of the he others In manor originated houses houses originated d at night In a a remote corner r o ot of the thein building This time It t started In Inthe inthe the attic where the electric wirIng wiring wiring ing had lately been Inspected d dur- dur during Ing dur-Ing tog ing alterations in the lighting ar ar arrangement The first baronet Sir WilHam of Gooch was lieutenant-governor lieutenant Virginia a quarter of a century before the American revolution AU All th that t remains today of the splendid old white brick house with Its Us fine tine stone trimmings Is the two toot outer w wall with the lion of ot the family crest still out out- out lined against the sk sky The loss lossin lossIn in antique furnishings tapestries rare paintings though paintings though Sir Thomas Gooch saved ved a famous portrait oKing ot of King Charles I and Lady Gooc Gooch herself rescued a valuable Romney Rom Rom- amounts ney-amounts amounts to hundreds ot of thousands of dollars The historic loss of course is Incalculable On December 21 4 Hadley Hall HallIn In Worcestershire tho the home homo for tor centuries of o the Lyttleton family was burned A few days later near Birmingham the I residence of ot Lad Lady Reynolds was burned In Janu January r Crowe Hall Hallat at Bath Bath the home of Sarah Gra Grand d the novelist no was burned On February I 2 Howick House the seat of ot Earl Grey at III Northumberland was burned On February 14 U Oulton Park ly ly lv Cheshire the home of Sir Philip Grey Egerton was burned On February 16 an his his- historic historic his historic mansion near Somerset Somer Somer- Somerset Somerset set was burned VALUABLES DESTROYED Each tire Ire destroyed master master- masterpieces masterpieces pieces o of paintings and of furni- furni furniture ure ture historic documents and relics which can never ne be replaced Oulton Park for tor example was WIlS and built two centuries ago ago by Sir John Van Yan Brugh the famous architect and dramatist and was as noted for ler Its collection of p paintings s by and andL L Landseer Five Fhe people lost their lives In this tire fire When on February 16 15 Hall hail a few miles below Lowe Lowe- Lowestoft Lowestoft stott was wu likewise dest destroyed the excitement and anger of or people hereabouts rose to a II fever heat you will notice said a II mem- mem memer member member ber er ot of one of ot the families tam Illes whose m nor h use had just been de destroyed do- do that In almost every case the resl residence ence which burned has rather suddenly burst Into lames flames The fire had originated In Ina Ina a remote corner at night and made great headway before Its discovery Also in nearly every enry case the burned residence was sit situated particularly far tar from front the nearest tire fire engine In the case of Bella ere Hall It was one hour before the fire companies from Wrentham Lowe stott Lowe Lowe- Lowestoft Lowestoft and Southwold South wold were able to get a sufficient water supply tomake to tomake tomake make even the slightest Impressions Impressions Impressions on the flames If It there Is any Incendiary plot plot against the ancestral houses of wealthy Englishmen the plot has been aided it must be admitted by our own carelessness In the them m matter of adequate tire fire protection and water supply Still It IL must also be remembered that these houses have ha stood for tor centuries centuries centuries- all through h the day days of candles and of open hearths and kitchen fires without tires without disaster Communist activity has been hidden but Intense In England lately latel Not always so hidden Cither for tor soap box orators have h openly advocated ad tearing down the British flag to replace ce It on Buckingham palace with the red flag of the Soviets And And a highly organized system ot of English communist com com- communist communist day schools and Sunda Sunday schools has reached such uch strength that It can openly proclaim the Imminence ot of a childrens cru crusade cru- cru crusade sade So |