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Arch-Conspirator
Of Bulgaria
SEEKING NOTHING
FOR SELF
MATCHING WITS WITH KING BORIS
SOFIA.
BUT his good men became bad
men, political government was gradually restored and insolent corruption romped along all Bul- garian highways and byways, hand in hand with rank Incffleleney,
It was again time for the master plotter, who had been watching this rlot, of wickedness, bitterly brood- ing. So on May 21, 1934, he as-i sembled his faithful captains and lieutenants, mightily smote tho bad men, pounded on the table of tho captive king, and once more placed is group of good men in power.
But some of them, very quickly went wrong again. A counter con ing to build bridges-political spiracy thrust Elcheff from his bridges. He is attempting to re-throne behind the scenes, and made open the road from the royal palace in 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 rife. Every ambitious man was: conspiracy and re-establish govern-at it. ment by the representatives of the nation.
KING Boris of Bulgaria in text
However, the king this time out manoeuvred the rest, and estab-1
# Government that was During the last twenty months lished
rather favourable to himself and conspiracies have been much in inclined to restore the constitution. vogue here. The popular naying Velcheff had to leave the country.
is that one cannot consider himself
a good patriot unless he has ar ranged at least one plot.
CONSPIRES FROM
WITHOUT
This sort of political activity has wo groups then began conspir- created a situation like that de-
ing from within, and Velcheff scribed in the Old Testament, where from without. It was a race as to "everyone did what was right in who would selze power first. One his own eyes." Here every "strong dark night Velchelf slipped back across the border, but was scized 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.
tors of all groups and shades were arrested in Bulgaria. King Boris had checkmated them all.
THE chief figure in this dramatic labyrinth of revolutions la
Now they are being tried, 27 of Reserva Colonel Damyan Velcheff. [them. The Court is na confusing
a dark, quiet, brooding man of as is all Bulgaria at prosent. The Judges are Velcheff's former col- two score years and ten.
leagues, members of his former He has an assured income and League. One might almost say lives simply, so does not seek they are his former accomplices. wealth. Nor is he lured by the He is being judged by his old
"pala". brilliance and show of power.
WANTS SCALPS OF PLOTTERS
King Boris of Bulgaria who conspires against con spirators, and does a good job.
ZANE GREY WILL MAKE OWN FILM
INCORPORATES ONE- MAN COMPANY Australian Setting
THE "man who has made himself into a company"
Zane Gray, American novelist and deep sea sportsman-ar- rived in Sydney this month by the Mariposa with a retinue of business executives and cameramen to "put Australia the fishing map of the world." *We are going to show Aus The spirit of lawlessnesstralia as we see it," said Mr. Ed- is rampant. There is no parlia- win G. Bowen, general manager of COLOURFUL DREAMS mont. There are no parties. No Zane Grey Inc., and the author's
elections. No channels for social mouthpiece to the Press.
Neither does he seek high office. In an era of conspiracies it is Ho 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 is condenining Vel- master conspirator is a bashful cheff. All is confusion. Stability
la gone.
man.
What Damyan Velcheff wants is expression. The army, too, has lost to impose upon the Stato his views is stability. Officers plot against about justice, social righteousness, officers, captains give orders to and administrative efficiency. He colonch.
has ideals that he wants to bring!
to reality. He dreams dreams that KING NO SHIRKER
he wants to make come true.
to end this confusion.
on
"Mr. Grey is here for some fishing, and to make a film "Zane Grey in Australia," he said. "We will leave to-morrow o Wednesday for Montague Island, and will stay there for a month or
rier Reef for aume mora fishing,
our base."
a bit and
film
Just Received.
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1 Raw eggs (anag.),
4 To include a run after the doctor. D What the schoolboy called "A
buffalo stato in the East."
11 Duffer to hold a lady's hands
without squeezing them!
12 I would turn this feature into
something audible. 13 Ho in fond of engineering.
throne.
and that can't be fresh.
17 This arin is distinctly Oriental. 19 Stain,
IZING BORIS has decided, at all two. We will then go to the Bar-16 A disguised singer is on tho What kind of dreams? Are they "red," like those of Marx, "brown," He shuns no risk and no reuponai probably making Thursday Island 16 Bolted followed by detectives, like those of Hitler, "green," like billty. He is going to bring dis-
Big Staff those of peasant martyrs, or clpline 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 und technical staff and 20 Figuratively a main supporter.
22 Bit of an OyGяDre. saints? They are of all colours, offers are to return to the bar they will be up at the base when 26 Altering a thing with a sense of they are like a rainbow. He is not racks.
we get there. We also hope to get loathing. "left wing.", "right wing" nor
a few 27 Occupant. He is determined to restore inland
28 Non-committal. Rather he is both.
authority, to re-establish connec- 'shorts"."
The Zane Grey party on the 29 One at forty is one indeed. IJE has two wings. The feathers tions with the people, to open once HE
of one are swords, of the more regular channels for public Mariposa included Mr. and Mrs. Came in places.
He is an opinion and to allow the nation Bowen, Miss Turnbull, of Auck-32 other plough shares.
land, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. ex-colonel, a former director of the again to impose its authority.
(the former a motion 33 Anderson officers' school, ал army MAN That will all be very difficult, be-
picture cameraman), Mr. Gus Bag- through and through. All his causC passions run high, great hard a 16 mm. movie cameraman) power lies in his connections with bitterness has been aroused, vari and Mr. J, E. Morhardt (a "still" soldiers. But his ideas are Radi-jous groups scek vengeance, all
photographer).. cal, a mixture of what you hear injaocial forces are disorganised, and
Mr. Bagnard's work will be to Y.M.C.A., a Sunday School, a impatient, Radical masses may film with a miniature camera for Socialist Convention, and a Peu-sweep into power as a hurricane.
home movies,for there is no branch sant Party rully. He wants to do
Only King Borla stands between of publicity and amusement in
good, to make people happy. Bulgurin and chaos. He hopes to which that enterprising man "Zane
And he wants to do it now. IIe build something good
from the Grey. Incorporated" is not in-
terested.
is disgusted with politicians, par-ruins left by the consplators. liaments, partisan wrangling, graft, and all the corruption attending décadent or undeveloped forms of democracy, He likes to cut Gor- dian_knots. He aspires to put "good" men at the head of the State, and to stand in the shade that he may cut the heads off "bad"
The pen slipped So we got Tweeds
this building (two words, 7 and There is probably a theatre in
serpent in ita coils, no to speak, la sorry. 34 Off-hand.
DOWN
1 Mary's aftor the lot. Just
digest thall
$20
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 overything I got to-
gether again.
17 Somewhat nervous throw. 18 They have to be returned, be-
longing to the chemist.
21 Haggle; surely you don't think
this a teaser!
23 Roaming In quest of adventure. 24 "A daw's not reckoned as a re- ligious bird Because It keeps a- (Thonins cawing from Hood).
20 Has three aldes and is let in.
(Ask your wifet) 27 Keeps a bruto from going_too
Tar.
30 As a rule it is alterod. 31 Book of the Bible.
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show.
3 The science of how to be good.
Assembly
that
pulsorily.
opong com.
0 This horse may have a Roman 12 Across, but it has no Roman heart.
7 What a polite Turk once called
one,
8 Girl's name,
WANG CHING-WEI
SAILING FOR EUROPE ON
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EARLYRISERS RRR
from his wounds, although the bullets- wore taken out shortly aftor the attack
Mr. Wang will be accompanied by A REST CURE
his wife and Mr. Tseng men who try to thwart his plans. THE shortsightedness, or ordinary effect is produced in the weaving.
warp-lengthwise-threads! carelessness, of a clerk gave The
Chung-ming, ralsed one thread and de-)
Vice-Minister of Railways. former Shanghai, Fob. 18. ORGY OF BLOODSHED the name to one of the products are
for which Scotland is famous pressed two or more for the passage Mr. Wang Ching-wel, until recently General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek He first tried that in 1923, and tweeds.
of the weft.
China's Foreign Minister and Pro- arrived here on Sunday morning to with much initial success. Ho
The Low German verb "twillen" sident of the Executive Yuan, will be bid him farewell. They returned to The materisi so called was for means "to make double," and the boarding the liner Gneisenau to-night, Nanking the same afternoon-Reuter." executed a great plot, overthrew an merly known as "tweels," a Scot: Swedish twilling". is "twin." and sailing to-morrow morning for
Veteran Leader Agrarian Government-mocassin tish form of "twill," and seeing:
Europe.
Mr. Hsino. Fu-chen, the aged mem wearers were then the bad men- this name-perhaps badly written Perhaps the clerk saw double, or
Mr. Wang's trip is to recuperato] bor of the Canton South-West Politi- and placed a group of professors in power-white collar weargra were on the invoice, the clerk misread perhaps he thought, as do so many his health having suffered a serious cal Council, who was indisposed dur... ;
people still, that tweed is named setback when he received threeing the last few days has fully It as "tweed." then the good men
after the Tweed Valley, where the bullet wounds November 1 at recovered and attended yesterday's There was k general orgy of violence and blood | Twill" is the name given to any cloth is made. It is more probable Nanking in an attempt on his life, meeting of the Boath-west Counci ASA flowed in streams.
material in which a diagonal strips that he just was not a Scotsman. Mr. Wang has not fully recovered says the Canton Daily Sun.
SALESMAN SAM
SAM, WE GIVE ZE GUESTS NEW SERVICE( EACH: |MORNING ZEY PUT ZE
SHOES OUTSIDE ZE DOORĮ AN' WE TAKE ZEM DOWN TO ZE BASEMENT FOR ZE POLISH!
YEAH, I KNOW, BUT MOSE, TH' PORTER,
IS SICK T'DAY!
SURE! BUT I APPRECIATE IF YOU WILL TAKE CARE OF ZE GUESTS' SHOES!
(OKAY, DE FLUKE! I'M TA BULLY POLISHER-
UPPER!
The Draw-Back
SAM, I AM FLABBERGAST!. "YOU WANT FOR TO RUIN ZE
GRAN CARPET? I TELL YOU ZE SHOES ARE POLISH IN
ZE BASEMENTI
AW, I KNOW YA DID, GASSY [:
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