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...volunteer army of 20,000. Last year, faced by the danger of Bolshevik intrigues, the Government applied to (and received permission from) the Council of Ambassadors for an increase of 3,000 men; but, owing to the opposition of Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania, the increase was not permitted until Apr. 10 of this year. Shortly after occurred the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27 et seq.). Bulgaria petitioned the Council for more troops, received permission to raise another 7,000 and maintain them during the pleasure of the Council...
King Boris, who does not believe in capital punishment, who had heretofore never approved a death sentence in his life, decided last week that the recent bomb outrage in the Sveti Krai Cathedral (TIME, Apr. 21 et seq.) merited the supreme sentence, signed three death warrants. At 8 o'clock in the morning, while low, gray clouds were chased lazily by a warm breeze, 30,000 people assembled in a meadow under Mount Vitosna on the outskirts of Sofia. Before them were three white gibbets, surrounded by a strong force of soldiers...
...York, N. Y. Apr...
Their further steps to acquire the Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette is recent history (TiME, Aug. 18, Apr. 6, 27). If the I. C. C. approves, a railroad system whose market value is approximately $1,000,000,000 will have been acquired by two men with an initial cash outlay of only $2,000,000. The appreciation in the Van Sweringen stocks has not only done the rest, but also paid them $16,812,809 profit for their pains...
This correction will reach you late, but I must set you right concerning the election in Egypt. In your issue of Apr. 6, Page...