"TSAR" FERDINAND SAID TO BE DYING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 287, 23 August 1918, Page 5

"TSAR" FERDINAND SAID TO BE DYING

A REPUBLICAN BULGARIA. London, August 21. The. "Daily Telegraph," dscussing a report from Madrid that King Ferdinand (if Bulgaria is dying, and that tho proclamation of a Bulgarian Republic may bo expected, says: Neutral newspapers havo attributed the removal of the Royal Family from Sofia to internal and political unrest, tho economic crisis, and the. food shortage. It is recalled that M. Malinoff, leader of Ihe Democrats, succeeded M. Riidoslavoff in (lie Premiership in June. The latter had ti shady history and served a long twin of imprisonment for embezzlement of public funds. He is recognised as Germany's tool. German newspapers recently protested that M. Malinoff was Russophile, and was pursuing a policy diametrically opposed to Radoslavoff's. It is impossible to say definitely what is happening in Bulgaria. Thero has been no news, except communiques, received for three months.— I Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,

[M. Malinoff is Ihe leader of the Democratic Party in the Sobranje. Tie was tho first spokesman at the remarkable, interview with King .Ferdinand on September 17, V,m, ilicforo Bulgaria's entry into Ihe war, when the Opposition leaders protested against the policy of tho King and M. Radoslavoff, and declared that tho Government had determined on an adventure that could only bring disaster.]

ALLIES' COMMUNIQUES NOW PUBLISHED.

(Rec. August 22, 7.15 p.m.) riomc, August 21. The new.Bulgarian Ministry tins permitted Ihe publication of the Entente Powers' communiques on I tie recent, successes on the West front. M. Radoslavoff formerly forbade these.-Aiis.-N.SJ. Cable Assn.