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Working swiftly and in the dead of night, friends of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania (TIME, Jan. 11, 18) pasted up enormous scarlet caricatures upon the buildings of Bucharest, the capital. Had Queen Marie (Carol's mother) ridden abroad in the early dawn, she would have beheld a coarse likeness of her alleged "court favorite," Prince Babu Stirbey, leering at her everywhere above the caption, "This...
This time Prince Babu Stirbey allegedly telephoned the Chief of Police of Bucharest and demanded the arrest of the Carolist Deputy, Gregoire Filipescu, who had admitted publicly that he was the chief of the poster-pasters. Strangely enough, Prince Babu Stirbey's demand was not only flatly denied but he was allegedly advised to depart at once from Bucharest, advice which he immediately heeded, according to despatches...
...also mixed himself up in a scandal involving the purchase of some allegedly defective airplanes by the Roumanian Government. Every now and then he threatened suicide, although behaving admirably toward Princess Helen, who is said to be gradually going blind. A few weeks ago he failed to return to Bucharest after attending the funeral of the Queen Mother of England. This was not even mentioned in despatches because his frequent "disappearances" with Zyzis have become commonplace...
...near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden; and he is expected to arrive shortly at Bucharest, in order to retract his rash step, which he now bitterly regrets...
...desultory struggle with 25,000 Riffians which has lasted seven years, is now celebrating the capture of an insignificant village, the so-called capital of Riff-land. Belgians, Serbians and Rumanians, they pointed out, found it quite possible to do a deal of heavy fighting after Brussels, Belgrade and Bucharest had fallen to the Central Powers. Abd-el-Krim is still at large. And the Spanish attack of last week, crowned by the fall of his "capital" though it be, represents an actual advancement of the Spanish front by a scant four miles...