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Despatches from Bucharest announced that the long heralded Roumanian general elections resulted last week in a three to one government majority. Cables from non-Roumanian cities reported, as usual, that the Roumanian government had exercised the most inhuman violence against Opposition candidates, that at least one such candidate?a priest named Turco?had been killed by government supporters with the assistance of gendarmes. What occurred may be judged from an account cabled from Vienna by able New York Times correspondent Clarence Streit...
Anastasia and Tschaikovski then - runs the story - fled to Bucharest, Roumanian capital, where she bore him a son. Tschaikovski was later shot by Bolshevist agents; and "Frau von Tschaikovski" declares that she placed the child in an orphan asylum near Bucharest when she was brought to Berlin by her brother...
...affair of honor with four-ounce boxing gloves. "Duelist" Schapira, a prominent Swiss resident of Paris, easily cuffed into submission his adversary, M. H. Tersieff, a onetime boxing champion of Roumania. While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous...
...daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and therefore closely related to the British reigning house (now called Windsor), was brought up a Protestant. Her husband, King Ferdinand, is a Catholic. Yet their five living children were reared in the Greek Orthodox faith. Last week, according to Bucharest despatches, she joined the church of her offspring...
Since the first of the year, correspondents at Bucharest have amused themselves by announcing the fall of the Bratiano cabinet every other week while denying this eventuality between times. The truth of the matter has been that Premier Jon Bratiano's Liberal party has indeed been losing ground, as was indicated recently at the minor municipal elections; and with the parliamentary elections now immediately in the offing, it was thought that he would prefer to step down from power a little in advance of the coming storm. The correspondents seized upon every rumor that he had resigned and cabled...