THE BULGARIAN REVOLT

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1923, Page 3

THE BULGARIAN REVOLT

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED. BELGRADE, June 12 It is reported from the Plevna district that ten thousand peasants in arms have disarmed the garrison there. The Government are sending strong detachments thither. Heavy fighting is reported at vari oils points between the conspirators and the peasants, bill owing to a censorship the results are unknown. Two of Stamhouliski’s .Ministers, Duparinoff ami Stanassoff, have escaped. The latter is organising the peasantry at Radomir. Stambouliski is believed to he somewhere in the interior, also organising resistance. An olficial Sofia report says his firsl move was to run and save his own life, a few hundred sympathisers following him towards Bnynidjik. Me eventually got to a wood in a motor.

EX-MINISTERS CAPTURED. SOFIA, Juno 12 notch's resistance in Kaclomir has collapsed. He and thirty followers remaining loyal to him were arrested, ns well as Dupariiiolf, the ex-Minister of Justice. Telegrams from important centres in the south report that all is calm there. Troops in motor cars and cavalry are disarming the peasantry, who display apathy, which is attributed to the approaching harvest, and tho fact that the leaders in the north have been arrested. Fighting continues at Teschin, where both sides have been reinforced, and considerable casualties are report-

A SENSATIONAL REPORT. (Received this day at 8 a.in.) LONDON, June 12. The “ Daily Express ” Sofia corresnondent states the new Government has issued a sensational statement, pointing out that though the ex-Miu-istci'H were supposed to he poor men, it was evident they had been living in luxury. Hoards of wealth were found in the residences of several cx-Mblist-ers including forty-five thousand sterling's worth of foreign currency at M. Stamhonliski’s farm. Ex-Ministers had used millions of leva (pre-war worth about i)',d) worth of State capital to buy buildings and estates and were the owners of the Agrarian National Stores, which with branches throughout the country, were gaining control of Bulgaria’s whole import and export trade.