A SHAKY THRONE
BULGARIA'S DYNASTY A REVOLUTIONARY. CRISIS. (UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIfIHT.S (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEAUND CATM.K ASSOCIATION.) '". ■•"•■ LONDON, 9th January.. According to a telegram from Belgrade to the Daily Express there, is a crisis in Bulgaria. The revolutionary movement is spreading among the peasants and workmen, a-nd is aided by the railway strike. ■" The* strikers have blown up two big railway bridges, for which act four of the ringleaders have been shot. I There have been a number of 'bloody encounters in Sofia between tho strikers and the troops, the latter using machineguns. Many casualties are reported. The King and the Royal Family have been imprisoned in the palace for a fortnight? The King is anxious to abdicate.
[A message -published a few days agti stated that forty thousand people had taken part in an anti-dynastic demonstration, and atacked the Royal Palace. The police suppressed the disorder. There were a. hundred casualties.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 10, 12 January 1920, Page 7
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150A SHAKY THRONE Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 10, 12 January 1920, Page 7
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