REVOLUTION IN BULGARIA

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 225, 11 June 1923, Page 7

REVOLUTION IN BULGARIA

CABINET MINISTERS ARRESTED NEW GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED A coup d’etat is reported to have taken place In Bulgaria, Cabinet Ministers being under arrest and a new Government established. By Telegraph.— Parss Association. —Copyright. (Rec. June 10. 11.20 p.m.) London, June 10. Sofia reports that there has been a coup d’etat. Cabinet Ministers are under arrest and a new Government has been established in power. Order is in the hands of the military. The new Premier is Professor Zankof, who also is Minister of War and Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Roussef is Minister of the Interior. Belgrade reports that according to the news from the Bulgarian frontier a revolution has broken out in Sofia, ine Macedonian Committee has seized the reins of Government by. force. The Bulgarian Legation m London regards the above as unconvincing, but admits that the Macedonian Committee is very hostile to .M. .Stamboiiliski’s policy of reconciliation with Serbia. M. Stambouliski came into power with a narrow margin of votes. The earlier report of the revolutionary outbreak cabled on May 27 was denied next day, but to-day’s messages give eight names of the new Cabinet. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ORDER THROUGHOUT COUNTRY \ MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED (Rec. June 11, 0.30 a.m.) Sofia, June 10. The Government was overthrown at 3 o’clock yesterday morning by a military league and the Opposition bloc, who, placing themselves at the head of a, popular movement, invested the Parliamentary Buildings and arrested all the Ministers and deputies present. The other Ministers were arrested at their homes. Provincial garrisons are supporting the movement. No trains left Sofia to-day, and the frontiers are closed. Order prevails in the capital end throughout the country. The revolutionaries appear to be masters of the situation, and have ordered the prosecution of ex-Cabinet MinisOther reports state that the King invited,M. Meletieff, Rector of Sofia University, to form a Ministry. M, Meletieff ’ proclaimed martial law. — Reuter.