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WAR FORTUNE SAVES
KING PETER'S ROBES

Open Secret That Servian Ruler
     Was About to Abdicate
          His Throne.

BELGRADE, Dec. 28.—(Special Cable).
—While all the Balkan royal houses have
strengthened their hold upon their re-
spective peoples by reason of the Turko-
Balkan war, it has been the very salva-
tion of the royal house of Karageorge-
vitch.

It is an open secret here that King
Peter was making preparations to resign
until it became certain that war
was inevitable.


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WHITNEY HOME SOLD
FOR FIFTH AVE. TRADE

Fine House at Fifty-Seventh
 Street May Be Remodeled or
 Torn Down for Business Block.

WAS HELD AT $2,250,000

Price Was Under That—New Owner's
  Name Not Revealed, But Broker
     Says He Is an Investor.

The career of the famous Whitney
mansion on the southwest corner of Fifth
Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street as a