SAVAGE EFFORTS
TO PUT DOWN UNREST IN BULGARIA TRIALS TO BE SPEEDED UP. MANY EXECUTIONS ORDERED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 13. The Bulgarian Government, apparently in an effort to check widespread unrest, has ordered the speeding up of trials of persons charged with complicity in Communist plots. Those sentenced are likely to be executed immediately. . , . The “Daily Telegraph’s” . Istanbul correspondent says that special courts are now trying hundreds of alleged agitators. Thirty-six are reported to have been executed at Sofia and lol) tried in four other centres have mostly been executed or sentenced to life imprisonment. Eleven policemen, and 62 soldiers were killed during a round-up. About 200 were arrested in Sofia yesterday, mostly for being in Sofia without a permit. The majority are being interned in the Aegean Islands. The German-controlled Scandinavian news agency reports that 184 persons have been arrested in Sofia ana 116 placed in a concentration camp.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1943, Page 3
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