Evening star., 1924-02-27

| The Almanach de Gotha. the annual
publication which set forth Who's
Who" of royal descent, was published
! in Germany for a century and a half.
Recently it ceased publication, for
| there We're not enough kings and
! queens left to make up Il FORM" as Il
| printer would express it.
! Even on the day when its publishers
announced this distressing paucity OF
| subjects, another crown was reported
! upon the point of disappearing. In
! its next volume, if any such had ap-
peared, there would probably have been
! listed: Boris, former King of But
garia," as it had already recorded his
| illustrious father: Ferdinand, former
/ King of Bulgaria" and even. 'Wilhelm.
! former German emperor, King of Prus-
sia.'
News persists that the bulgarian
reds" or socialists. have driven King
Boris out of his country, and are form
| ing a republic The Bulgarian minis
ter to the United States, Mr.. Panerctoff
+; contradictS the press reports, and our
own State Department has received no
official confirmation of the revolution.
The Bulgarian minister also denies
: mat there IS any lOuIiudtjoh ioi tHC
story that his country is plotting war
| against other Balkan countries. He
| points to the impotency of Bulgaria to
! fight, under the limitations of her
| armament as imposed by the allied
| powers in the treaty of Neuilly after
| the world war armistice. He intlmates
that all such stories originate in the
| enemy countries for the purpose of Civ
| ing the world a false impression to
Bulgaria's alleged disturbed condition.
IL.
King Boris, who is about thirty
years of age, according to the min
| lister, sits firmly upon the throne
! from which his father, King Ferdi-
/ nand, was driven by the allies in
punishment for his part in adhering'
; to the Germans in the world war.
! Until. last Christmas Boris ruled in
/ loneliness separated from all the
rest of his family. His younger
| brother, Prince Cyril taged about
| twenty-five years., had been taken by
| his exiled father into Austria and
| later into Germany, as had also his
| two Younger sisters. The loyal Bull
earians urged that Prince Cyril, heir
| a auparent, ought to live in Bulgaria
| and he was persuaded to join his
brother, the king. last Christmas
| His two sisters came, too. for the
holidays. but they all returned two
! weeks ago to Germany, where the
| Young. princess married the Prince
of Mecklenberg. For the wedding
her sister and Prince Cyril went back
TO Germany, but the prince is ex-
uected in Bulgaria in a few days.
X x i; X
No one can comprehend the Balkan
unrest and the jealousies and race
hatreds of it's many peoples without
! hecoming familiar with its history.
! MANY of the peoples in Bulgaria are
racially different from the Bulgarians
For five centuries all the Balkan
ueninsula was ruled by the Turks.
and, with their Mohammedan hatred
of christians, the crueltieS and atroc-
ities Iracticed throughout the PENN
suIa were even more horrible than
! such as we of the present generation
read of as occurring in Armenia. The
,mrression of the Balkans became
unhearablc until. in 1876. the Bull
! aarians began agitation for release.
Tbis brought increased terrors. with
tbo n,assacres of whole villages by
! the Turkish armies.
! Russia seeing the blot on CfviliZa-
! tinn. appealed to Great Britain and
othar T,uropean nations to help drive
ont the Turks. But for Il century
! ENGLAND had been more. jealous of
| Russia's defiance of Turkey than she
I,ad of Turkey itself. England feared
that Russia would gain Constanti-
| nople If Turkey were forced to give
it up. Gladstone led the opposition
| ance Of Turkey N Europe, and. by a