Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-05
bULGAR KING QUITS
THRONE, IS REPORT
Abdicates in Favor of Crown
Prince Boris, Said to Be
Already in Power.
PEOPLE UNITED FOR PEACE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN. October 5.-The Off
cial Austrian correspondence bureau
has given out dispatch from Sofia
dated Friday. stating that King Fer
dinand Of Bulgaria abdicated Thurs
day in favor of Crown Prince Boris.
The new king, it is declared, already
has assumed the reins of office.
The abdication of King Ferdinand
was reported in Vienna advices re-
ceived last night by way of Switzer-
land and Paris. There seems little
reason to doubt the correctness of the
statement. King Ferdinand's popu-
larity with his people has been wan
ling rapidly since it became apparent
to ,Bulgarians that he had erred
lgrievously in plunging the country
into war on the side of the Teutonic
powers. Advices from the capital had
indicated that before the armistice
with the entente was signed King
Ferdinand was trembling for his
throne and feared that a revolution
might upset the whole dynasty.
Attitude of Boris.
The attitude of Prince Boris toward
the two groups of belligerents has
not been definitely indicated, but the
adviceS from Sofia have shown the
Bulgarian government so thoroughly
committed to the plan of making
peace with the entente that it seems
i Crh mil yn1u OH he
titular head of the state would affect
the policy of the Bulgarian leaders
wac are engaged in carrying out the
peace program.
Reports have been current for some
time since the development of the
would abdicate. His health was re-
ported greatly impaired and in Au-
gust he was taking the cure at Bad
Nauheim, whence he returned to Sofia
in early September.
The possibility that the dethrone-
ment of Ferdinand may be due to en-
tente pressure suggests itself when it
is recalled that in a somewhat an
alogouS situation in Greece the pro-
German ruler Constantine, abdicated
after entente influence there had won
the ascendancy, being replaced, as is
the case now in Bulgaria, by a son of
the king.
King Ferdinand took the Bulgarian
throne in 1887, but his election as
monarch was not confirmed by the
great powers until 1896. He married
Marie Louise de Bourbon. eldest
daughter of Duke Robert of Parma,
in 1898 Her death occurred in 1899.
and in 1908 Ferdinand married
Princess Eleanore of the house of
Reuss, who died in 1917.
Prince Boris was born January IL.
1894, and was received into the Greek
Orthodox Church in February, 1896.
People United for Peace.
BASEL. October 4.-Formal denial
of statements made in the German
press that the Bulgarian peace pro-
poSalS were made without the con-
sent of all sections of the people was
made in King Ferdinand's speech be-
fore the sobranje, according to the
Bulgarian semi official organ Pre-
poretz which is quoted in a Sofia dis
patch reaching here.
Semi official adviceS from Sofia say
that the Bulgaria press counts on the
entente nations not to betray their
elevated principles of international
justice and to take into account Bull
garia's territorial claims when peace
is negotiated. Another dispatch. from
Sofia says that Gen. Jecoff's state
ment that he had made a protest
against the proposal for an armiStice
between Bulgaria. and the allies had
no connection with the actual Situa-
ton there nor with the intentions of
that country.
Financial Blow to Teutons.
ZURICH. Switzerland, October A.
The detection of Bulgaria is having
serious effect on the central empires
from financial as well as political and
military reasons, because of the fact
that both Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary had made large advances to Bull
garia for the conduct Of military OPP
erationS