GYPSY KING CROWNED
WARSAW CELEBRATION WANDERING TINKER WARSAW, July 6. The gypsies elected Janus Zwkeik, a 52-year-old Pole, who has a wife and four children, as their King. About 12,000 spectators witnessed the Coronation of the new King at Warsaw Stadium, the robes being borrowed from the Warsaw Opera House. It is the first time for 1000 years that a gypsy king has been crowned. Zwkeik, before his election, was a wandering tinker.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 5
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