BULGARIA: Rex Felix

Earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria put on one day last week a surgeon's white gown and red rubber gloves.

Citizens of Sofia were on the qui vive. If they should hear an 101 gun salute that would mean that Tsaritsa Ioanna had been delivered of a Crown Prince—not by Tsar Boris of course. In his antiseptic gear he merely watched.

Boom!—went the first gun and all Sofia began to count. Only 21 blanks were fired. It was only a girl—but Sofia responded nobly. By Tsar Boris' order the small Palace grounds were...

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