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Died. Archbishop Simeon, 98, Orthodox Archbishop of Varna and Preslav, Bulgaria ; of pneumonia; in Sofia. He took part in Bulgaria's struggle for freedom from Turkey, in the fight for an independent Bulgarian church, was one of the drafters of the Bulgarian constitution...
Bulgarians added a British angle. They pointed out that George V's cruiser London of the Malta squadron arrived at Varna on the Black Sea while General Zlateff was sounding out highly placed Bulgarians preparatory to his switch. Off H. M. S. London stepped none other than Rear Admiral John Knowles Im Thurn, sometime commander of H. M. S. Hood ("World's Most Powerful Battle Cruiser...
...trains he uses. Like the late great Albert of Belgium, Tsar Boris is an impassioned locomotive engineer, likes to spend much time in the engine cab, although he by no means is above taking a trick at shoveling fuel. Last week, taking the 300-mile run from Sofia to Varna for a brief vacation in his palace on the Black Sea shore, Boris looked out of the window and found the train stopping half way between Kecarevo and Strazica. Here was a stop he never makes when he drives the Sofia-Varna Express. He ran forward to the locomotive, found...
Avoiding the excitement incident to the proclamation of a dictatorship fortnight ago, dark-eyed Italian-born Tsaritsa loanna took a few days rest last week at the comfortable summer palace of Euxinograd. near Varna on the Black Sea. But even on holiday royalty has its duties, and one of them is entertaining local ladies. Seated on little gilt chairs, they sipped glasses of hot tea and munched tiny cakes, which the Bulgarian ladies found "marvelous." Her Majesty smiled amiably...
...City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that was bothering him was whether he ought...