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Abysmally ignorant U. S. news organs told that the train wrecked was the Simplon-Orient Express. The distinction, nice, between the Orient and the Simplon-Orient is that although both run Balkan-ward from Paris through the Swiss Simplon Tunnel, the Orient later branches off to Bucharest, and the Simplon-Orient to Constantinople...
After a painstaking inspection of the city, Prime Minister Andrea Liaptcheff of Bulgaria officially reported that not one single building remained habitable. The famed Simplon-Orient Express, connecting Paris and Constantinople, could not traverse Bulgaria last week. Towns shaken down included Borisovgrad, Russof, Kavala, Komatine, Negotim and Gajecar...
Last week Rear Admiral Bristol said, reassuringly, at Constantinople, as he took the Simplon Orient Express for Paris: "Turkey has now become a robust nation with no fear of her most promising future...
Simultaneously a very beautiful woman and a handsome child of five were en route to Italy from Rumania in a private car attached to the famed Simplon-Orient Express. She was Elena,* Princess of Greece and Rumania, consort of the abdicated Prince Carol. The boy was their five-year-old son, Mihail, now Crown Prince of Rumania. Carol has not returned to reside with them since November, 1925 when he left Rumania to attend the funeral of Alexandra, late Dowager Queen-Empress of Britain...
...Simplon-Orient Express drew into Venice, newsgatherers watched to see if the royal salon car would remain coupled when the express puffed out toward Paris, toward Carol. Was a Crown Prince soon to cry, "Papa! Papa...