BULGARIAN REVOLT.
.STAMBOUIJSKUS END. [united service telegrams.] (Roceived this day at 11.45 n.m.) LONDON. June IS. Further picturesque details of Stambouliski’s fate show that ten soldiers came to the village to arrest him. ‘lt is impossible there should be any other Government. 1 am the Premier. They must be insurgents. Open fire,” Stamilxuiliski told his Corporal. Fire was opened njfl%iiicnntiinc the whole village aroused b.v'Chureh bells. Then a local priest holding in one hand a cross, and in the other a Ixunb, went from house to homo, calling on the peasants to prepare to defend their Premier. Stambouliski offered peasants 500 levies per
tiav nnd soon collected about „ tliouRand followers, who believing it was '-v mly a minor mutiny, suffered themselves to be led against the soldiers. A pitched battle developed on the banks of the Polynitzn, but the peasants armed only with rifles and machine guns attain,st troops with artillery, were soon touted and lied leaving Stamhouliski to fend for himself.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1923, Page 3
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162BULGARIAN REVOLT. Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1923, Page 3
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