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Show ROE CORTEGE ESCORTS CHILD ONE HUNDRRD AND ONE GUNS BOOM SALUTE UPON THE ASCENSION TO THRONE Prince Carol Abandons All Hope; Cheers Follow Line of March Bucharest, Rumania One hundred and one guns boomed a salute to King Michael I of Rumania, announcing to the assembled multitudes that the 6-year-old monarch has ascended the throne. A cortege composed of the royal household cavalry, the prefect of police po-lice and the marshal of the royal court, preceding a royal conveyance bearing Prince Nicholas, the princes mother, Helen; Princess Ileana and the little king himself, passed through the streets from Cotrocent palace to the house of parliament. Within the building were the members mem-bers of both houses, all the military and civil dignitaries and the members of the diplomatic corps. The regents, Prince Nicholas, Patriarch Miron Cristea and Justice Buzdugan entered. They were followed by Princess Helen, who led his majesty, Michael I (Mi-hai (Mi-hai I) by the hand into the chamber of deputies. Straightening cut his puny shoulders, shoul-ders, the little chap ascended the fifteen fif-teen steps to the royal tribunal and gazed on the assembled deputies and senators, professors and learned men with the greatest unconcern, never smiling. Then came the cheers. |