BULGARIA: Brideless Boris

Little Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians lay abed in Vienna last fortnight with a pain in the ear, and in Bulgaria many a cafe owner knew not what to call his groggery and it all seemed to be the Pope's fault.

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...

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