BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS

Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 5

BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS

TWO ME LEADERS KILLED REFUSE TO SURRENDER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SOFIA, April 24. The police unearthed OulofF, one of the chief confederates of UinkofF (vicepresident of the Communist organisation), and called upon him to surrender. OulofF refused, and was shot dead.—A. and N.Z. Cable. April 25. Ivan ManofT, a member of the secret committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, refused to surrender to the police, and was shot dead.—Reuter. THE HAND OF MOSCOW. BULGARIA STRUGGLES AGAINST ANARCHY. SOFIA, April 24. General Rousseff, Minister of the Interior, told a party of foreign newspaper correspondents that the evidence in possession of the Government showed that the Communist societies of Moscow, mid others, were in close touch with organised bands, the bulk of the members of which were ■ drawing a monthly subsidy from their taskmasters in the Kremlin, with a bonus for each crime committed. The total arrests did not exceed 1,500. The Struggle against anarchy would be carried On unitedly. Bulgaria desired peace, but had been forced to fight the spectre of Communism. General Roussetf appealed for the civilised world’s normal support for Bulgaria in her hour of trial and suffering.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MILITARY RULE. KING BORIS A CYPHER. ROME, April 24. A message from Belgrade states that King Boris is practically held prisoner in the Royal Palace by the militarists, headed by General Lazareff, wlm is the Dictator of Bulgaria. This action lias been taken in consequence of the suggestion by King Boris that M. Zankoff should resign with a view to the formation of a Cabinet incorporating the Opposition elements. —A. and N.Z. Cable. MR WEDGWOOD’S STATEMENTS. LONDON, April 24. The ‘ Daily Herald ’ prints a lengthy, despatch from Mr Josiah Wedgwood (Labor M.P.), affirming that the Sofia Cathedral outrage was a sequel to a long course of agitation and repression, in which the peasants and Macedonian insurgent movements eventually joined hands. The Communists allege that within three days of the outrage 6,000 arrests and 250 executions took place in Sofia alone. Ho says British and American Ministers and missionaries are interceding, but the Government no longer controls affairs, which are in the hands of military officers and armed bands. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THEATRE AND LIBRARY’ DESTROYED. SOFIA, April 26. (Received April 27, at 1.20 a.m.) The theatre at Plevna, also the munidjal library, which was one of the largest fa Bulgaria, were destroyed by fire, which was started by the Agrarian Communists, who placed bembs beneath the stage in the theatre. No lives were lost.

Kassaboff, who is alleged to have been one of the Sofia conspirators, was killed in the course of a fusillade.—A. and N.Z. Cable.