New Britain herald., 1915-12-13

evidence of his French sympathies He even kept at the royal palace at Sofia, in a small silver box, bit or French earth, as tribute to the soil he so often visited and loved. He also had at the palace collection of rare French souvenirs-the cloak in which Louis XIV. was copsecrated king; one of the dainty slippers dropped by Marie Antoinette during ner famous defense from the mob by the Swiss guard; the black crystal cup from which Napoleon drank to his victory at Austerlitz, and other rare objects
 As explaining Ferdinand's recent tendency to ward Germany, story is related by diplomatist recently sta toned here. According to this, Elm peror William. even before the Flu ropean war began, foresaW possible eventualities in the Balkansa nd per- sonally addressed himself to the three kings of Bulgaria, Greece and Rumah- ia. His overture to each was most tactful. He did not ask them to range their countries on the side or Ger many All he asked was the promise from each that in the event of a Eu- ropean conflict, they would not make war against Germany. This seemed fair to the three kings and they are
  it, on the theory that it did not com init them to war, but to keep out of ] war. But the Kaiser is said to have l viewed it from another standpoint i and to have felt quite serene since l then at the efforts of the quadruple ] allies to have quite rafohrdlu rdlu l allies to have the Balkan states range ] themselves solidly against Germany. I However, the situation had changed 1. much since these alleged promises E The king of Rumania has died and been succeeded by another. The king i of Greece has found a new condition presented, not contemplated at the r time of the so-called promise that E Greece's ally, Serbia, was attacked by ! Germany's ally, Austria. This, accord f ing to the story, of the diplomatist < has left King Ferdinand as the only ! one to carry out the promise. s.r
 Interesting Family.
 King Ferdinand has an interesting
 family The crown prince, Boris, has
 shown himself 8 good soldier. He re- l ceived the surrender of Cavalla from i the Turks. Many Bulgarian pictures 1 show Ferdinand and Boris standing on l the ruined walls of Cavalla. This is
 now on added sting for Bulgaria, as ;! Cavalla has passed into the hands of
 Greece. The two young princesses,
 Eudoxie and Nadejda, nursed the
 wounded during the. last war. Many
 Americans have autograph letters from these young princesses, for after issuing a personal appeal to Ameri- cans to help the wounded, they wrote personal acknowledgementst to every one, who responded.
 | King Peter of Serbia.
 r King Peter of Serbia has had a rest less and adventurous. life, spending l most of his early years in Paris while ! a rival dynasty occupied the throne
 of. Serbia. He was then plain Peter
 Karageorgvitch, living in Paris and
 Geneva in anything but royal style. It
 was not until the rival dynasty was
 king and Queen Draga, that the wan
 dering Peter suddenly found himself l a king.
 During these, Bohemian days, Peter
 mingled a good deal among the Amer 1 jeans visiting Paris. Tn this way he
 chaanced to meet the daughter of one
 of the. merchant princes of Chicago and showed her marked attention. This was so noticeable that Paris pa
 pers at the time referred to the pros poets of union between the prospec-
 tive king of Serbia and young Amer i ican girl. It is said not to have been Peters fault that an American queen does not reign today in Serbia.
 Brother Close Companion.
 | Peters brother Arsene was his close companion cor in the Bohemian days.