COMMUNIST PLOT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10384, 1 May 1925, Page 5

COMMUNIST PLOT

INVOLVING ALL EUROPE.

ACTIVITY OF POLICE. DISCOVERY IN ROME. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) ROME, April 30. The Italian police unearthed a. Communist insurrection plot embracing all Europe. RED TERRORISM IN BULGARIA. PRISONERS FILL THE SCHOOLS. SOFIA, April 30. A detachment of police motored to a farm house at Durvintza. where they learned that Grantcharoflr, a member of the .gang of conspirators who are committing acts of terrorism, was hiding. In response to an order to surrender, Grantcharoff appeared at the window of the granary and fired on the police, who retarded the fire, killing Orantcharoff. The schools are filled with Communist and Agrarian prisoners. Eleven were killed and 30 wounded in a four-hours’ battle between the revolutionaries and the police. BULGARIAN RUTHLESSNESS. TORTURE OF PRISONERS. (“Sum”) (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. Colonel J. C. Wedgewood, Mr Mackinder, and Mr Malone, the delegation of British Labour M.P.’s who visited Bulgaria, report that after the explosion in (Sofia, lorries left the prisons during the night taking batches of prisoners to the country to be shot. The Government, which came into potfer through a series of murders, beginning with the assassination of the Premier, M, Stam'bendisky, in 1923, has been guilty of ruthless tyranny, murdering political opponents. Many thousands have been tortured, strangled, or pounded to death. This will surely arouse a volcanic upheaval. The delegates urge the British and American public to protest against the executions and imprisonments without trial.