DUE TO TYRANNY

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1925, Page 5

DUE TO TYRANNY

SOFIA BOMB OUTRAGE What British M.P. Found Out (Received April 2.6 h at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 25 The ‘Daily Herald’ prints a, lengthy dispatch from Colonel Wedgewood, the British AL I’., affirming that the Sofia (‘at hr.ha I outrage was the sequel of a long course of agitation and repression, "I‘ich the peasants movement and the Macedonian insurgent movement eventually joined hands. The Commun isls allege that xvithin three days of the outrage, six thousand arrests and -•>0 executions took place in Sofia ' -'one. British and American Ministers and' missionaries are interceding, /but the Government no longer has control ot affairs, xvhieh is in the hands of the Officers’ League and of armed bands. A MINISTER’S VERSION. MOSCOW BLAMED. SOFIA, April 25 General Rousseff, |hc Minister of the Interior, told a party of foreign newspaper correspondents, that the cx’idonee in the' possession of the Government showed that Communist Societies of Moscoxx- and others in close touch therewith, had organised hands the bulk of the members of xvhieh xverc drawing a monthly subsidy from their 'taskmasters In the Kremlin, \vith a bonus for each crime committed. The total arr'ests, he said, do not exCpe/F fiftepn hundred. The fstruggle against anarchy will bo carried on unBulgaria desires but she has bppn forced to fight the spectre of Communism. M. Rouscff appealed for tho civilised world’s normal sup- , port for Bulgaria in her hour of trial and suffering. MARTIAL I,AW AND EXECUTIONS. LONDON. Apil 23 Ihe “Daily Mail’s” Sofia correspondent says: Parliament, on ratifying the martial law, vociferously applaud ed tho speeches of the xvounded Premier and Ministers, (‘specially General Vulkotf, Minister of War, who xvas lamed by a bomb. Many members had heads bandhged. Most of the leaders of tho Coinmunists have been arrested, or shot for resisting arrest. A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP ROME, April 21. A message'from Belgrade skates that King Boris is practically being held a prisoner in the Royal Palace, by the militarists, headed by General Lazoreff, xvho is the real Dictator of Bulgaria. This action has been take’n in consequence of a suggestion by King Boris that M. Zankoff should resign 'with a xiew to the formation of a Cabinet incorporating the Ojqlosition ■clement.