OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 19777, 30 January 1928, Page 5

OBITUARY

BLASCO IBANEZ Press Association-By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. January 29. (Received January 30, at 1 n.m.) The deatli is announced at Nice of the novelist Blasco Ibanez, from bronchitis and pneumonia complicated with diabetes.—A. and N.Z. and ‘Sun’ Cable. [Vicente Blasco Ibanez, the wellknown Spanish novelist, was sixty-one years of age. He was a native of Valencia, for which ho was seven times elected a deputy in the Spanish Parliament. He was the author of ‘TheFour Horsemen of the Apocalypse,’ which attained an extraordinary success during the war. Other novels by him include ‘The Shadow of the Cathedral,’ ‘The Matador,’ and ‘ Blood and Sand.’ Of lato years he had resided in Paris. He aroused much feeling a year or two ago by his attacks on the monarchy.]

TRIBUTES TO DEAD WRITER,

MADRID, January 29. (Received January 30, at 10 a.m.)

The newspapers of all shades of opinion pay tribute to Senor Ibanez, More than 4,000 telegrams were despatched to Mentone, and many delegations are going there. SORROW IN EXILE. MENTONE, January 29. _Senor Ibanez died at his beautiful villa, Fontana Rosa. Sorrow over his prolonged exile from his native land is believed to have undermined his constitution. Latterly he had divided his time between his famous garden, which he intended to bequeath to the writers of the world, and a new book, which he proposed to name ‘ The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse,’ for which he attended the last assembly at Geneva, in order to obtain local color. His sons arrived by aeroplane before his death, but his daughter and her husband were late. The’ novelist wished to be buried at Mentone, saying that he did not want his body to be taken to Spain so long as the present regime o■paten.