BULGARIAN COUP
GREAT RECEPTION TO THE KING.
SOME TROUBLE IN MACEDONIA.
SUPPRESSING TERRORISTS
(TTnited Pre&s Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) . SOFIA, May 24. King Boris had a great reception on appearing in public for a' first time since the coup d'etat. This was accepted as evidence that he is reconciled to the new Cabinet. Sofia continues quiet, hut there is trouble in Macedonia, where the Government is bent on breaking the revolutionary organisation, controlling 20,000 well-armed followers, 'having been terrorising the country for 20 years, causing constant friction with Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
POST IN CABINET REFUSED. KING OFFERS TO ABDICATE. LONDON. May 24. The Sofia correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" says that the real dictator of Bulgaria is not even a member of the new Government. lie is Damien Veltcheff, a retired colonel, who lea the conspirators when they burst into the palace and demanded the establishment of a military dictatorship. King Boris, it is reported, offered to abdicate rather than to submit, but the conspirators persuaded him'to change his mind. The conspirators were mostly officers who served under Colonel Veltcheff. He refused a post in the new Government, but dominates it. King Boris has lived in virtual retirement singe the '■'putsch." No news pf any kind has been given put from the palace.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 190, 25 May 1934, Page 6
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