ALLEGED PLEAS OF GUILTY
PROTESTANT* CLERGY IN BULGARIA CHARGES OF SPYING AND PLOTTING (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, February 23. Collective pleas of guilt and repentance. alleged to have, been made by the 15 Bulgarian Protestant ministers who will face trial in Sofia today on charges of spying and plotting, were shown to foreign press correspondents last night by Mr Ilia Timev, the Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Justice. The Sofia correspondent of the Associated Press says that the Minister produced 2226 pages of statements and depositions, which he said were in the handwriting of the defendants. The correspondent adds that the documents were filled with responses like these: “I admit my guilt,” “I repent,” “I beg for clemency," and “I want to be given a new chance- to work for the Motherland.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25739, 26 February 1949, Page 7
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