BULGARIAN PLOT
ABREST OF COMMUNISTS.
(Ohited Press Association.—Copyright.) ..:';" :■■"''PAEIS, 30th December. . . Details have been received from Sofia of. ait elaborate plot to : overthrow the Bulgarian throne. Five hundred Communists arranged to take possession, of the principal railway stations and publac buildings in Sofia, while 500 others seized the barracks. Officers of the army -were to be arrested simultaneously in their homes. The plot was discovered, arid. 82, leaders arrested. Some confessed that the aim was to secure «»? abdication of the King and to establish a Communist dictatorship Since discovery of the plot a number or. Commttiusts-. have committed suicide while; Sramoff, who was recently con^ demned to toi years' imprisonment, threw himself from the third , story window of the prison and was critically
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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123BULGARIAN PLOT Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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