GIPSY KING ELECTED
MASS MEETING AT WARSAW OPERA ROBES FOR CORONATION (Received July 7, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, July (J A mass meeting of gipsies to-day elected as king Janus Zkweik, a 52-year-old Pole, who has a wife and four children. About 12,000 spectators witnessed the coronation at the Warsaw Stadium, the robes having been borrowed from the Warsaw Opera House.
It is the first time for 1000 years that a gipsy king has been crowned. Zkweik before his election was a wandering tinker.
A message on Sunday stated that the gipsy king would go to Rome to ask Signor Mussolini for land in Abyssinia for gipsy .settlements. There were five claimants for the "crown."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22775, 8 July 1937, Page 11
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