Show UI u. SN FIRST wn ITH AID T TO BULGARIA Ul ARIA t t KING r t SOFIA Bulgaria April 25 AB AU KIng Boris of ot Bulgaria in an nn int in in- t with the Associated Press corr correspondent today said that he would like to stress that the United States was the first country to recognize recognize rec rec- the distress suffered In I southeastern Bulgaria through a Devastating series of ot earthquakes The first message of ot condolence to Bulgaria came from President Coolidge he lie said and tho the first material aid from the American Red ned Cross The kin king drew a p pathetic picture of ar the suffering of ot his ills people and nobody was better botter able to tell teU the ruler story than tho the 34 old year who spent days In the ruined dis dis- tracts After the first shocks inthe in inthe inthe the area on April 14 14 the tho J accompanied by hrs his sister Princess Eudoxie and his brother Prince went from village to to village questioning and helping victim vic vic- tim tims He lIe had returned to his country country country coun coun- try house at near Sofia when lien he felt there the the- shocks which brought disaster to on April 18 The next day the king i started on a a. tour of that district He Ile spent three days there dwelling in tn a tent am among among ng his stricken sub sub- L ha haye haye- e seen the results of several sev sev- several sev- sev eral ral earthquakes he said notably those those r novo In 1913 and at Sofia in 1917 but none Were so violent as this last which covered a wide area embracing important centers of of population and including the densely populated and flourishing flourish flourish- flourishing In ing city of ot the center of the tobacco industry employing thousands of ot workers workers' The people are suffering indescribable inde inde- misery Th The sudden disaster disaster disaster dis dis- aster plunged hundreds of ot thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ot the population of ot southern Bulgaria into an almost desperate state |