KING CAROL TOLD TO WAIT

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1931, Page 4

KING CAROL TOLD TO WAIT

BULLIED BY POLICE OFFICER. BUCHAREST, March 4. King Carol’s essay in the role of Haroun al Raschid proved unpleasant to a number of idle officials. It furnished His Majesty with valuable first-hand evidence of the majority of Roumanian bureaucrats. According to the special correspondent. of the newspaper Aparerea. Nostra, King Carol’s first visit was to a. police station in Pake Street, where the King knocked politely at flic door of one of the offices'. “What the devil do you 'want?” shouted the surly occupant. ‘‘Keep quiet and wait until your turn domes.” Venturing to disregard these in-

structions, King Carol quietly opened the door and discovered evidence in the process of being extracted from two alleged pickpockets by the notorious Third Degree methods of the Roumanian police. The examining sergeant, on recognising the King, hurriedly untied the victims and completed their examination according to the Western European methods, to the '' isible delight of the thieves.

The monarch then inspected the suburban tax collectors’ offices, where llnal notices . were In propar-ition.

Though unable to secure any similar amelioration for the taxpayers here, King Carol expressed sympathy with the victims. Next King Carol went to the outpatients department of a local hospital. Here his search for delinquents was richly rewarded. He found all the doors locked. No doctors or assistants were present, although it was within tho hours for receiving patients. The King insisted that a list of names of defaulters, should be' handed to him, which he pocketed.' They will all be dismissed. At Bucharest Police Commissariat No. 29 King Carol made the best bag of all. For his repeated knocks were answered only by hearty snores. When the Royal boot plied against tho door finally aroused the sergeant to open it, he collapsed in an almost fainting condition as he recognised his pallcr. Recovering his presence q£ mind, he sought to pei'suacje his Sovereign that his sleep was the best

evidence of the absence of crime in tho area. But his,name joined those «*• other delinquents in King Carol’s notebook.