WHOLESALE MURDER
OPPONENTS, HUNTED AND MASSACRED. BLOODSHED RULE IN BULOAiHA. Unltca Ureas Assn *oy £l. Tel. Copyrlebi 'United Service.) LONDON. Not. 18. The Manchester Guardian’s Belgrade correspondent states that despite the rigid censorship, a local newspaper learns from Soiia that Vantcha Mihailof, who became the undisputed head of the comitadjis by murdering his rival, General Protogeroff, continues a policy of securing obedience by exterminating his opponents. The inhabitants of the Petritch and Tchustendil districts petitioned the- Government to intervene. Mihailof secured the names of 100 leading petitioners and ordered their immediate execution. The majority fled to the mountains, where they were hunted down like animals. Eleven comitadji committeemen refused the oath of allegiance to Mihailof and were sentenced to death. Six were shot down at dawn. The. others escaped, hut were hunted and massacred.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10748, 20 November 1928, Page 5
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134WHOLESALE MURDER Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10748, 20 November 1928, Page 5
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