WAR YARNS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 9

WAR YARNS

'' TWO EX-SOLDIERS DELAY ROYAL _ PROGRAMME. e Two old soldiers, who fought on op--0 posite sides in the war on the Balkan e front, began swopping yarns at Bright ton, with the result that the proI gramme of a royal visit was half an hour behind schedule. One of the “old soldiers” was King Boris of Bulgaria, and the other Major y Frank Jupp, custodian of Brighton Royal Pavilion. y King Boris, who has two great hobbies, railway trains and butterflies, came to Brighton to ride in an all- , electric long-distance train and to see ’j the great collection of butterflies housy ed in one of the city’s museums, the s “News-Chronicle” states. .. His Majesty speaks excellent English and when, after’ luncheon at the pavilion, someone mentioned that Major . Jupp had fought against the Bulgarians J the King at once began an animated conversation. 1 Members of the Royal suite and local e officials, including the Mayor, stood by s while the King, forgetting about his \ visit to the butterflies, chatted with the I major. s “The King was greatly interested in my reminiscences of the Bulgarian front in 1918,” Major Jupp said. r “I mentioned that I was second-in-command of a prison camp in which, e at the end of the war, there were ’• 10,000 Bulgarians. It was my duty to s repatriate them, and I told the King I ~ handed the men over to a Bulgarian * officer, Lieut. Stoyanoff. 3 “The King told me that this lieutenf ant is now the Minister of Transport in the Bulgarian Cabinet, and promised to mention our conversation to him.” King Boris spent over an hour examining the butterflies. He accepted a s rare specimen for his own collection. During the run to Brighton the King 1 walked through the train and chatted with the motorman and his assistants, - but he did not handle the controls.