BALKAN TURMOIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1925, Page 2

BALKAN TURMOIL.

THE CATHEDBAL EXPLOSION BED PLOT ALLEGED. UJETttALIAN \ND N. 7.. ASSOCIATION SOFIA. April 17. AVliile there has hoeu no further serious outbreak, the Director General of Central Prison was assassinated m the street to-day. The explosion oeeurcd at three iii the afternoon, and three Cabinet. Minder., were slightly injured by falling piaster. The dead include tbc prefect ol police and several deputies. I'lie city is m a. leimeiit. The whole country is excited, and military authorities ordered the Curfew from 7.30 in the evening. All classes are most indignant at the outrage. following on a series of political assassinations, culminating in the attack on Kng Boris. Citizen volunteers are enrolling and forming patrols to maintain law and order under the direction ol General Poussef and Vulkotf. the Ministers of the Interior and War. The military held up and searched all passengers in the train yesterday. I ravel was din.--tic-ally regulated, and several arrests made in connection with the explosion. A police enquiry showed it was due b an infernal clockwork machine, concealed in part of tlie Cathedral facing the South. Ministers and officials mostly escaped because they ban gathered round the coffin in the chancel. The Premier. Alinisters of AA ar and Interior were slightly hurt. Ihr Alavor of Suiiia, ex-AAar .Minister, (*enerai Xnidenoff, was killed. The King received an ovation Iron, the crowds in the streets when he visited the scene ot the explosion. It is believed thirty were killed anil two hundred injured, mostly slightly, by the bomb explosion in the Cathedral. It is stilted the body of the assassin deputy Xilelf. rubied on Feb. 141 li. was discovered on the spol where he was killed, bearing papers stating the execution was ordered by a Aliiiedonian organisation. I lie man is said to have been an anarchist and habitual murderer. SOFIA. April 17. Over one hundred bodies have been recovered, including that oi Ai. lived (the Premier’s Secretary), and Genera! Ki-sof (Prefect of Police). SOFIA. April IS. One ol the three' (lollies oi Sveta .Willis Cat iiedral. where lhe infernal machine was deposited, lias completely collapsed, also the .south porch, while there is grave' danger of the conimli dome collapsing. The whole town is in mourning, and all the shops are shut, while it is stated that a hundred and. forty were killed in the Cathedral explosion, of whom twenty were women. ten children, and six generals and “HO officers. Martial law lias been declare.! throughout I lie country. The Director-General of the Central Prisons was assassinated in the street. Thousands have beau arrested ill l he principal towns. LONDON. April IS. The Bulgarian Aliiiister in Berlin states the Government possesses a document wherein the Bussiaii Soviet urges the Communists to carry out political assassinations and incendiarism. as a prelude to a revolution in Bulgaria. KOFI \. April 18. It is now estimated that two hundred were killed and two thousand injured in the Cathedral Ixnnh explosion. There have been hundreds of arrests. Troops have surrounded tile city, and the frontier is closed. Ihe streets are deserted. All vehicular traffic has stopped. The explosion occurred al 3 p.m.

.MOSCOW PLOT AI.LKOKD. LONDON. April 18. The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent says: ‘‘Evidence collet tod from several European Chancellories shows a ceaseless stream of outrages in Bulgaria plotted in Moscow through Communist propaganda agencies. notably Vienna and Bulgaria. The Little Entente is expected to make representations to Austria on the subject.” Boine of the greatest powers may join in a collective demarche against the Soviet activities in the Balkans. The Morning Post’s Rome correspondent says that Roumnnia and Greece will ' both intervene in the event of any serious Red aggression in Bulgaria,