HUNTED TO DEATH
BULGARIAN VILLAGERS A DESPERATE DESPOT (United Service) LONDON, Monday. The Belgrade correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian” states that notwithstanding a rigid Press censorship a local newspaper says it learns from Sofia that Vantcha Mihailoff, who became the undisputed head of the comitadjis by murdering his rival, General Protogeroff, continues his policy of securing obedience by exterminating his opponents. The inhabitants of the Petritch and Tchustendil districts sent a petition to the Bulgarian Government, asking it to intervene. Mihailoff secured the names of 100 of the leading petitioners and ordered their immediate execution. The majority of them fled to the mountains, where they were hunted down like animals. ( Eleven comitadji committeemen refused to take an oath of allegiance to Mihailoff and were sentenced to death. Six were shot at dawn. The others escaped, but were hunted down and massacred.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 9
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141HUNTED TO DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 9
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