Warsaw, July 5.
Ceremonies marking the coronation of the new King of the Gipsies of the World drew a huge crowd at the Polish Army stadium here yesterday. A number of official personalities, including, Mme Skladkows, wife of the Premier of Poland, were present when Archbishop Theorowiez, head of the Orthodox Church in Warsaw, consecrated the new King's crown of gilded tin and gave him a sceptre from which the dust of a near-by theatre's property-room had been hastily brushed off.
Representatives from gypsies of all countries had been sent to witness the election of the King by the gipsy senators, seventeen of whom favoured Janusz Kwiek as was expected in well-informed gipsy circles where Kwiek had been considered from the first a favourite among the five pretenders to the throne, all of whom belonged to the Kwiek dynasty which has ruled the Gipsy Kingdom from time immemorial, Janusz, shortly before the election, was offered at ten to one by the Lord Grand Chamberlain of the Royal Household, against his most likely contestant, The Lord Grand Chamberlain is by trade a shoe-maker, his official functions at the gipsy court affording him ample spare time.
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