INCIPIENT REVOLT

Evening Star, Issue 25046, 13 December 1943, Page 3

INCIPIENT REVOLT

ARMY OPPOSITION TO PRO-NAZI POLICY BOMBINGS BRING HOME BEAUTIES OF WAR (Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. t Both the Bulgarian army and Parliamentary opposition are demanding I'iat the Bulgarian Government take Bulgaria out of the war or make way for a popular Government, said a Bulgarian colonel who has just arrived at Istanbul from Sofia. He added: "The crisU n Bulgaria is due to the army's opposition to the Government's pro-German policy. The Parliamentary opposition voted lack of confidence in the Regency, which it declared was too pro-Nazi." The Associated Press Ankara correspondent says the puppet Bulgarian Government, backed by German police, is fighting an incipient revolt while the Nazis- tighten the last screws in the Balkan defence machine. The Bulgarian crisis was created by the implied threat from the Teheran and Cairo conferences that the Allies would soon strike in the Balkans and the conviction that the Russians can no longer be expected to absolve Bulgaria from the responsibility of helping Germany to dominate the Balkans.

The recent air attacks against Sofia have brought home to Bulgaria the realities of war, and have convinced the people that their lives and property are endangered by the Government's alliance with Germany, and that the conntry faces a real catastrophe if the alliance is not broken. According to tliie Paris radio, Sofia was again bombed last niglht. Budapest radio stated that several time bombs exploded in Sofia yesterday 24 hours after the Allied raid on Friday, causing considerable material damage, but no casualties, as the areas had previously been evacuated.