BULGARIAN MELEE.
ABDUCTION AND ITS SEQUEL. SIXTEEN PEOPLE KILLED 'AND MANY WOI7NDED. By TeleeraDh-Preßß Association—OoDyrleht Sofia, March 15. Stifanoff, a Bulgarian, abducted a Mussulman giiL Tho Courts decided that as she was a minor she must be returned to Her parents. The populace of Rustcbuk supported Stifanoff's resistance to the decree, and a melee followed. The polico killed sixteen, and wounded a hundred personsmany seriously. The Minister of the Interior (M. Takek) is widely blamed, as are also the police and military at Bnstchuk, for ovorzealonsly and culpably executing the Court's order. In face of the public excitement the garrison was reinforced. King Ferdinand was much upset by the occurrence.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 768, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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110BULGARIAN MELEE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 768, 17 March 1910, Page 5
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