Word: bulgarias
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Under the headline-YOU RICH GIRLS, HERE COMES KING SEEKING A BRIDE!, the New York American printed a Universal Service press despatch which announced the imminent world tour of Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. According to this report, the King will go to Rome, Paris, Brussels, London, Berlin, Copenhagen looking for a princess with whom to mate. If he is unsuccessful, he will come to the U. S. and " unite the Saxe-Coburg und Gotha dynasty with the new aristocracy of wealth...
...Balkans interests the average voter as much as a Western train robbery interests a citizen of Greater Boston. President Coolidge believes it unsafe even to bring the question of a world court into the presidential campaign; a question of joining the English commonwealths to stop hostilities between Bulgaria and the Communists might become even more of a political football...
Double revolution, wholesale sabotage in Bulgaria...
Communists and Agrarians, by separate revolt, tried to overthrow the Government. The Army defeated Communist insurrections at Stara Zagora and Nova Zagora; but the Communists called a strike and engaged in wholesale sabotage of communications. Some 100,000 Agrarians were reported marching on Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. Troops halted them with rifle fire...
Owing to the strict censorship exercised in Bulgaria, little authentic news was received; many rumors were, however, current, which probably exaggerated the importance of the unrest...