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Evening Star, Issue 24004, 1 October 1941, Page 12

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REIGN OF TERROR IN BULGARIA. LONDON, September 30.—Reports from Ankara say a reign of terror in Bulgaria at the week-end. Arrests and executions followed further nets of sabotage in Sofia and villages on the Yugoslav frontier. A special tribunal has been established for treason trials. An Englishman, Norman Davis, and the Bulgarian peasant leader, George Dimitroff. are among the accused. The Lyons radio stated that. 28 Communists were arrested in Arras and sent to the district concentration camp, making a total there of 250. ft is reported from Paris that the Germans shot another Frenchman for (possessing arms. Nine patients in a sanatorium near Raids were arrested for distributing Communist leaflets. UNEVENTFUL VOYAGE. SINGAPORE, September 00.— Further large reinforcements have arrived, including R.A.F. personnel. artillery, and signallers. The journey from Britain was uneventful. AID FOR RUSSIA. The joint council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society this morning decided to vote £2,000 to the Russian Red Cross for expenditure on equipment and medical supplies. Arrangements have beg,n made to cable the amount immediately. At the executive meeting Mr W. G. Twccdie (Mayor of Timaru) was appointed Red Cross Commissioner in the Middle East. He will leave as scon as possible.—Wellington Rrcstb Association. UKRAINE FRONT. LONDON, September 30.—The Tass Agency says the Odessa garrison recaptured 15 villages in one day during a rout of the second and fourth Rumanian infantry brigades. The Italian operation to which the German communique referred occurred in the Dnepropetrovsk region. The Stefani Agency says that the Italian units in this operation formed a rough square in which several Russian divisions were imprisoned. The Russians violently but vainly counter-attacked. The Italians captured over 5,000 prisoners. The German News Agency says Marshal Budenpy was encircled with his armies eastward of Kiev, but pscaped in a plane. It is learned in London that bare-footed Russian prisoners, bearded in cattle trucks, have arrived in the Netherlands.