PLOT AGAINST THRONE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18889, 3 January 1927, Page 9

PLOT AGAINST THRONE.

BULGARIAN SENSATION,

MANY COMMUNISTS ARRESTED.

I.ET CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN ASD N.2. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received December 31st, 8.15 p.m.)

PARIS, December 30,

Details hare been received from Sofia of an elaborate plot to ovet Ihrow the Bulgarian throne. Five hundred Communists arranged to take possession of principal railway stations and public buildings in Sofia, while five hundred others seized the barracks. Officers of the army were to be arrested simultaneously in tlieir homes. The plot was discovered and 82 of the leaders arrested. Some confessed that their aim was to secure the abdication of the King and to establish a Communist dictatorship. Since the discovery of the plot, ft number of Communists has committed suicide, while Srainoff. who was recently condemned to ten years' imprisonment, threw himself from the third storev window of a prison and was critically injured. FERDINAND TO VISIT PARIS. (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 31st, 8.15 p.m.) PARIS, December 30. If his health permits, King Ferdinand will visit Paris in January to undergo radium treatment for cancer. It is announced that he does not desire to see Prince Carol.