Evidence Against Leader Of Bulgarian Opposition
(Rec. 11 a.m.) SOFIA, Aug. 10. Lieutenant Mutaf, the chief member of the military organisation known as the “Military Alliance,” told- the court which is hearing the charges against Nilola Petkov, the Bulgarian Opposition leader, that his organisation had planned to cause civil war in order to bring foreign intervention, occupation and a change of regime.
Other members of the Military Alilan.ce testified that the organisation was in direct contact with and considered itself the advance guard of Petkov’s Agrarian Party. Petkov is charged with preparing an armed revolt and inciting senior army officers to form an anti-Gov-ernment military conspiracy. The British Foreign Office has announced that Bulgaria has now granted permission for a member of the British political mission in Sofia to attend’the trial of Nikola Petkov. The Russian assistant chairman of the Allied Control Commission in Sofia has refused permission for an official British observer, Major A. L. Ungoed-Thomas, M.P., to attend.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1947, Page 6
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