BALKAN DRAMA
SECRET COURT MARTIAL COLONEL VELTCHEFF SENTENCED TO DEATH Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SOFIA, February 22. A secret court martial which sat for 11 weeks passed the death sentence on Colonel Damain Veltcheff, commandant at Kiril St. Antcheff, on a charge of conspiring to overthrow King Boris and the Government. Two others were sentenced to 10 years and eight others to eight years’ imprisonment. These included army officers. Fifteen were acquitted. Colonel Veltcheff, who was formerly the “ power behind the scenes in Bulgaria,” organised the Officers’ league, which carried out coups d’etat in 1923 and 1934, the latter of which established the Gheorgieff regime and suppressed political parties, which Colonel Veltcheff declared had become tools of Macedonian terrorists. Colonel Vcltcheff refused the Premiership, holding that military rule was inadvisable, but later he came into conflict wiht King Boris, resigned from the Government, and was exiled. It is doubtful whether he will be executed owing to his popularity throughout the country* •
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Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 9
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160BALKAN DRAMA Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 9
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