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Show RETIRED RULER OF SERBIA HEARS END PARIS. King Peter of Serbia, now 79 years old. is very feeble, according I to report! reaching Paris from Belgrade Bel-grade He Is totally deaf and spends all his time in bed or in an Invalid's I wheel-chair Only the Crown Prince and Princess Helcnc, his widowed I daughter, whose husband was killed, J by the Bolsheviki, are permitted to set- htm. While tli nanlind jhai ho '.fr..r. led the old monarch's right side for the last two years has improved somewhat, some-what, he Is unable to v.nlk. 11c has J lost steadily In weight and energy I since coming from his retreat In Pha-jleron, Pha-jleron, Greece, a year ago and has ceaaeo. to participate In the affairs of state. Ho Is Irving in a little stone house outside the city of Belgrade. Ills only companions are his physician and a personal servant. After the liberation of Serbia from Austria In October. 191S. King Peter returned to Belgrade with his army and entered actively into the reorganisation reorgan-isation and reconstruction of his shattered shat-tered country Falling health, however, how-ever, compelled him soon after to Beek retirement to private life. Tho affairs of state and court were turn-ied turn-ied over to his son. Prince. Alexander. who became prlnc- regent of the new state of Jugoslavia. Early ln 1919. the king was reniov-I reniov-I ed to a quiet retreat nei Athens, Greece, where he lived for a year or mure In a small six-room house overlooking over-looking the Bay of Phaleron To meet his long-chtrlshed wish that h.j might die on his native uoil, the Serbian authorities late last year brought the Invalid King back io his beloved Belgrade. He avoided society land kept aloof from all court and pub-Uo pub-Uo functions. oo |