BULGARIAN CHAOS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 122, 27 April 1925, Page 5

BULGARIAN CHAOS.

COMtfUMISTS’ ALLEGATIONS. LONDON, April 25. The Daily Herald prints a lengthy despatch from Colonel Wedgewood affirming that the Sofia Cathedral outrage was a sequel to a long course of agitation and repression in which the peasants and Macedonian insurgent movements eventually joined hands. The Communists allege that within three days of the outrage 6000 arrests and 260 executions took place in Sofia alone. British and American ministers nnd missionaries are interceding, but the Government is no longer in control of affairs, which are in the hands of officers in league with armed bands. Ivan Manoff, a member of the secret committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, refused to surrender to the police and was shot dead.—A. and N.Z. cable. BOMBS IN PLEVNA. SOFIA, April 26. The theatre of Plevna, also the municipal library, which is one of the largest in Bulgaria, were destroyed by fire, which was started by an Agrarian Communist who placed bombs beneath the stage. No lives were lost. Kassaboff ; alleged to bo one of the Sofia conspirators, was killed in the course of a fusillade.—A. and N.Z. cable. GENERAL AS DICTATOR. Tome. April 24. A message from Belgrade states that King Boris is practically held prisoner in the Royal Palace by the militarists, headed by General Lazareff, who is the real dictator of Bulgaria. This action has been taken in consequence of a suggestion by King Boris that Zankoff should resign with a view to the formation of a Cabinet incorporating the Opposition elements.—A. and N.Z. cable.