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...Ireland for Germany's late, great President von Hindenburg. As he fiddled with the ropes Sergeant Irvine smelt smoke. It curled in tiny wisps from the apartments of the private secretary. As he raised the alarm crackling flames burst through. Before fire engines could travel the twelve miles from Belfast, Hillsborough Castle was leaping skyward in a vast, black swirl...
...bedchambers in which slept Edward of Wales on his last visit (TIME, Nov. 28. 1932). "Come on, boys!" roared the Fire Chief. "Carry out what you can before the roof goes!" As firemen, villagers and servants darted through the smoke, lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid rescued the baton carried by the Duke...
...Belfast, Northern Ireland, when the Canadian Pacific steamship Duchess of York put in, U. S. Consul General Lucien Memminger went aboard with a party of detectives, searched diligently but vainly for Dillinger...
Died. Joseph ("Wee Joe") Devlin. 61, longtime Irish Nationalist leader, brilliant orator; of cancer of the throat; in Belfast...
...smoky Belfast last week hulking Premier Viscount Craigavon, who looks like an oldtime hotel detective and stands solidly for the allegiance of Northern Ireland ("Ulster") to the British Crown, rumbled: "Ulster again is assured of five years of a resolute and settled government. I shall carry on, encouraged by the victory over the destructive elements arrayed against our imperial stronghold...