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Late Bulgarian news read by ex-Exile Radoslavoff, told how Prime Minister Liaptcheff had foiled assassins when he returned to Sofia last week, by train instead of automobile, from ceremonies at Kritschin. Detective Phileon Alexandroff, who followed with the Prime Minister's car, drove into a hail of rifle bullets near Philippopolis, was killed...
Some weeks back bachelor Tsar Boris left Sofia in cheerful mood. Traveling incognito as Count Stanislaw Rilski of Warsaw, he joked with railway officials, and hoped that this would be his last journey alone. It was understood in Sofia that Tsar Boris's official matchmaker, gallant General Ivan Wolkoff, was in Rome arranging for the marriage of Tsar Boris with the King of Italy's daughter Giovanna. Pictures of Princess Giovanna appeared in Sofia shopwindows. Newspapers said that a compromise had been reached with the Vatican whereby the first male child of Princess Giovanna and Tsar Boris might...
General Wolkoff, baffled, withdrew, and King Boris went to bed with an earache. In Sofia the various Konditorei Giovanna are now named Konditorei...
...Norway's Oslo. There the Storting suspended all parliamentary business while Oslo's Hambro, the nation's stern speaker, led a barking Norwegian cheer. Appropriately enough; Norsk Kron Prins Olav was not there to hear. With gallant stealth he had slipped off to Stockholm and Sveriges Princessa Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra...
...Sofia, small, picturesque capital of Bulgaria, sprang suddenly into color last week. Bulgaria's white-green-red flag fluttered from a thousand windows. In balconies were flowers. From public buildings streamed bunting. In the churches were services; in the streets, a parade. All the shops were closed...