Queen Marie of Rumania telephoned in some agitation last week to her daughter Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. King Ferdinand of Rumania, phoned Queen Marie to Queen Marie, had suffered a relapse in his long, chronic illness (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.). Soon a telephone operator who overheard the royal conversation started a rumor which grew and gathered, gravity until correspondents in Berlin asserted "on the highest authority" that King Ferdinand was dead. . . .
To check these rumors the Rumanian Government very characteristically suspended all electrical communications and held up the...
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