BRITON TO ATTEND
BULGAR TREASON TRIAL SOFIA CHANGES MIND (N.Z.P. A.—Reuter—Copyright.) (10 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 10. The Foreign Office announced in London that Bulgaria had now granted permission for a member of the British political mission in Sofia to attend the trial of Nikola Petkov, the Bulgarian Opposition leader, who is accused of having prepared an armed revolt and incited senior army officers to form an anti-Government military conspiracy. The Russian assistant chairman of the Allied Control Commission refused permission for an official British observer. Major A. L. Ungoed-Thomas. to attend.
The Soviet assistant chairman added that newspaper correspondents, both home and foreign have been given free access to the trial. T ieutentsnt Mutaf. the chief member of the military organisation known as
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22404, 11 August 1947, Page 6
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