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Arch-Conspirator Of Bulgaria
SEEKING NOTHING FOR SELF
MATCHING WITS WITH KING BORIS
SOFIA.
ING Boris of Bulgaria is try King to build bridges-political
| BUT
UT his good men became bad men, political government was gradually restored and insolent corruption romped along all Bul- garinn highways and byways, hand.. fn hand with rank inelelency.
It was again time for the master plotter, who had been watching this rlot of wickedness, bittorly brood- Ing. So on May 21, 1934, he as- sembled his faithful captaina' and Heutenants, mightily smote the bad men, pounded on the table of the captivo king, and once more placed a group of good men in power. went wrong again.. A counter con But some of them very quickly agent, his
bridges.. Ho in altempting to re-throne behind the scenes, and minde open the road from the royal palace a native and bungling general the only three to the cabins of his peasant people, chief, That lasted He wants to end government by months, for conspiring had become rifo, Every ambitious man was conspiracy and re-establish govern-at it. ment by the representatives of the' nation.
During the last twenty months conspiracies
have been much in here. The popular saying
vogue
le that one cannot consider himself A good patriot unless he has ar ranged at least one plot.
However, the king this time out- manoeuvred the rest, and estab lished a Government that was other favourable to himself and inclined to restore the constitution. Velches had to leave the country.Į
CONSPIRES FROM WITHOUT
This sort of political activity has wo groups then began conspir- created a situation like that doing from within, and Velcheff It was a race as to scribed in the Old Testament, where from without. "everyone did what was right in Who would seize power first. One his own eyes." Here every "streng dark night Velcher slipped back across the border, but was seized man" has been conspiring to create with the dust of Serbia still on his the kind of government that seemed shoes. At the same time conspira. right in his own eyes.
THE chief figure in this dramatic labyrinth of revolutiona is Reserve Colonel Damyan Velcheff,
tors of all groups and shades were arrested in Bulgaria. King Boris had checkmated them all.
Now they are being tried, 27 of them. The Court is as confusing;
a dark, quiet, brooding man of as is all Bulgaria at present. The two score years and ten,
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judges are Velchef's former col- leagues, members of his former He has an assured income and League. One might almost BOY lives simply, so does not seek they are his former accomplices. wealth. Nor is he lured by the Ho is being judged by his old
"pals". brilliance and show of power. Neither does he seek high office. In an era of conspiracies it is He finds no pleasure either in always so. The present regime ostentatiously giving commands, proclaims It is guided by Velcheff's And he dislikes the limelight. This principles, but in condemning Vel- master conspirator is a bashful cheff. All is confusion. Stability
•man.
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ZANE GREY
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THE "man who has made himself into a company”- Zane Grey, American novelist and deep sea sportsman-ar- rived in Sydney this month by the Mariposa with a retinue of business executivos, and cameramen to "put Australia on the fishing map of the world"
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1 Raw eggs (anog,);
to end this confusion.probably making Thursday Island 10, that can't be fresh.
Big Staff
Bolted followed by detectives, und
17 This aria is distinctly Oriental, 10 Stain 20 Figuratively a main supporter. 22 Bit of an eyesore, 26-Altering a thing with a sense of ---
loathing
"We are going to show Aus- is gone. The spirit of lawlessness tralla as we see it," said Mr. Ed. is rampant. There is no parlia- win G. Bowen, general manager of COLOURFUL DREAMS ment. There are no parties. Ne Zane Grey Inc., and the author's
4 To include a run after the doctor. elections. No chunnels for social mouthpiece to the Press, What Damyan Velcheff wants is expression. The army, too, has lost
"Mr. Grey is here for some
D What the schoolboy called "A fishing, and to make a film 'Zane buffalo sinta in the East." to impose upon the State his views is stability. Officers plot against
"he said.
11 Duffer to hold a lady's hands about Justice, social righteousness, officers, captains give orders to Grey in Australia,'
them! without squeezing will leave to-morrow 01 "We He colonels. and administrative efficiency.
Wednesday for Montague Island, 12 I would turn this feature into
something audible. and will stay there for a month or
13 Ho is fond of engineering. to reality. He dreams dreams that KING NO SHIRKER
two. We will then go to the Bar-15 A disguised singer ia on the he wants to make come true.
KING BORIS has decided, at all rier Reef for name more fishing, throne. What kind of dreams? Are they costs, "red," like those of Marx, "brown," He shuns no risk and no respons)-four base." like these of Hitler, "green," like bility. He is going to bring die- those of pensant martyrs, or cipline into the army, again. He
"The Monterey is bringing over "black" like those of priests and has a stern War Minister, and the more sound and technical staff and saints? They are of all colours; officers are-to-return-to-the-bar- they will be up at the base when they are like a rainbow. He is not racks.
we get there. We also hope to get "right wing" nor "left wing."
He is determined to restore inland a bit and film
28 Non-committal. Rather be is both.
authority, to re-establish connee-shorts"."
The Zane Grey party on the 20 One at forty is one indeed, HE has two wings. The feathers tions with the people, to open onco
one are swords, of the more regular channels for public Mariposa included Mr. and Mrs. 31 Camo in pieces.
this building (two words, 7 and "He is an opinion and to allow the nation Bowen, Miss Turnbull, of Auck-82 There is probably a theatre in other plough shares.
land, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. ex-colonel, a former director of the again to impose its authority.
(the former n melion 33 A serpent in its coils, no to officers' school, ал army man That will all be very difficult, be-
speak, is sorry. through and through. All his cause
passions run high, great Picture cameraman), Mr. Gus Bag- power lies in bis connections with bitterness has been aroused, vari-hard a 16 mm. movie cameraman) soldiers. But his ideas are Radious groups seek vengeance, all and Mr. J. E. Morhardt (a "still"
photographer). cal, a mixture of what you hear in social forces are disorganised, and
Mr. Bagnard's work will be to n Y.M.C.A., a Sunday School, ajimpatient, Radical masses may film with a miniature camera for 2 If you blow it, you give away the Socialist Convention, and a Pea-sweep into power as n hurricane.
show. home movies, for there is no branch
3 The science of how to be good. sant Party rally. He wants to do
amusement in Only King Boris stands between of publicity and
Assembly
that. opens com- good, to make people happy. Bulgaria and chaos. He hopes to which that enterprising man "Zane
pulsorily. 6 This horse may have a Roman And ho wants to do it now. He build something good from the Grey
12 Across, but it has no Roman heart.
of
..
Anderson
terested.
few
Incorporated" "is not in-
The pen slipped So we got Tweeds
27 Occupant.
34
Off-hand.
DOWN
1 Mary's after the lot. Just
digest that!··
5
7 What a polito Turk once called
8. Girl's name.
ono.
WANG CHING-WEI
·SAILING FOR EUROPE ON
·A NEST CURE
9 Sometimes precedes evidence. 10 Absence of excitability,
13 It's no ring without it, but it
gives you away in church.,
14 In colour gverything I got to
gether again.
17 Somewhat nervous throw.
18 Thoy have to be returned, bo-
longing to the chemist.
21 Haggle; surely you don't think
thin teaser?
23 Roaming not reckoned as a re in quest of adventure. 24 "A
ligious bird Because It keeps a
wing from a (Thomas
20 as three sides and is' let in.
(Ask your wifel)
27 Keeps a brute from going too
far
30 As a rule it is altered.
31 Book of the Bible.
Yesterday's Solution.
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from his wounds, although the bullets- taken out shortly after the
were
attack.
is disgusted with politicians, par-ruins left by the conspiators, Haments, partisan wrangling, graft, and all the corruption attending decadent or undeveloped forms of domoerney. He likes to cut Gor- dian knots. Ho aspires to put "good" men at the head of the State, and to stand in the shade
Mr. Wang will be accompanied by that he may cut the heads off "bad" HE shortsightedness, or ordinary effect is produced in the weaving.
his wife and Mr. Tsong Chung-ming, men who try to thwart his plans. Tengah, of a dark gave The warp-lengthwise-threads raised one thread and de-
Shanghal, Feb. 18.
former Vice-Minister of Railways. ORGY OF BLOODSHED the name to one of the products are
Mr. Wang Ching-wel, until recently General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek which Scotland is famous prossed two or more for the passago)
of the welt.
China's Foreign Minister and Pro- Arrived here on Sunday morning to He first tried that in 1923, and tweeds.
The Low German verb "twillen" ident of the Exocutive Yuan, will be bid him farowell. They returned to with much initial succesS. He The material so called was for-
and sailing to-morrow morning for]
Veteran Lender executed a great plot, overthrew an merly known as "tweels; a Scot-means "to make double, and the boarding the Iner Greisenau to-night, Nanking the same afternoon-Reuter. Agrarian
Mr. Heino Fu-chen, the ared mem Europe. Government-mocassin tish foci of "twill" and seeing Swedish "twilling" is "twin."
Porhaps the clerk saw double, or
Mr. Wang's trip is to recuperate ber of the Canton South-West Politi- wearera were then the bad men this name perhaps badly written and placed a group of professors In on the invoice, the clerk misread perhaps he thought, as do so many his health having suffered a serious cal Council, who was indigosed dur power-white collar wearers were it as "tweed."
people still, that tweed is named setback when he received three ing the last few days lane fully after the Tweed Valley, where the bullet wounds on November 1 at recovered and attended yesterday's then the good. men. There was a general orgy of violence and blood; "TWIP is the name given to any cloth is made. It is more probable Nanking in an attempt on his life meeting of the South-west Council, flowed in streams.
material in which a diagonal stripe that he just was not a Scotsman. Mr. Wang has not fully recovered may the Canton Daily Sun.
SALESMAN SAM
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for
SURE) BUT. I APPRECI IF YOU WILL TAKE CARE
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(OKAY, DE FLUKE! I'M
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