AN AMAZING CAREER.
Among tho romances of the war and after there is not one more amazing than the career of tho latest Roumanian Duke. Mr Boyle of the Yukon ho was; the Due do Jussy he and his heirs male are or will be for all lime to come.
Boyle is an Irish-Canadian, and ho first emerged about twenty years ago as tho manager of Frank Slavin, tho pugilist. He and the fighting man went up the Yukon at the time of tho Klondike boom, and both "struck the yellow" and made fortunes. When war broko out ho.raised in Canada a machine-gun corps. Ho did many things, original and bold; anil tliero is ono story of how he helped the Russians to get out of East Prussia when they were so severely defeated by llindenburg. • After the Armistice, Colonel Boyle went, to Roumania. Hero (says the London Evening News) he shone as the saviour of that country. ( When the Bolshevists were marching against that kingdom the King sent soino notables'to the invading army to try to make peace. These envoys were seized i and sentenced to death. Now came the chance of Boylo of the .Yukon, lie flew into the Bolshevists' camp, ■ho signed a peace with tficm, he saved tho envoys, and he returned Uo Bucharest, tho ! hi-ro of the hour. t
Tho King made him tho Due do-Jussy ii and a royal aide-de-camp. The Queen nursed him when he was ill.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 10
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244AN AMAZING CAREER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 10
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