BULGARIAN HORRORS

Grey River Argus, 25 June 1925, Page 6

BULGARIAN HORRORS

TSANKOFF’S BLOODY RECORD A DIARY Ob’ EVENTS. The fascist murder-regime represented by TsankotE has in Bulgaria surpassed itself in organised terror and outrage against the workers and peasants. Details -will be found below. What must be noted is that the White terror in Bulgaria has been condoned and even applauded by the British capitalist press, which has gloated over the savagery of Tsankoff’s “Black. and. Tans” just as it did over those of Lloyd George. The whole affair has been utilised to open a new campaign .of slanders, forgeries, and misrepresentation against the Soviet .Republics and thereby to prepare the minds of the British workers against the day when Tsankoff’s White Russian mercenaries lead a new armed attack on the Workers’ State which kicked them out. Al! Trade t’nion branches and Labour organisations must realise that by registering their protest they will />ven than heroic and martyred Bulgarian Labour. DIARY OF EVENTS LX BULGARIA. June 1923. —Military conspirators overthrow democratic Peasant Government. kill Prime Minister Stain. buliski, and many thousands of peasants who attempted to resist tho Fas. Sept ember 12, 1923. —2,000 Communists, Trade Unionists, and Agrarians arrested and • shot ‘‘ attempting to escape.’’ September 22, 1023. — Premature rising, provoked by TsankofT, in which .”.000 peasants and workers were shot without trial. Hundreds of prisoners, including a number of Members of Parliament, mayors, and Trade I nion leaders, were taken out id’ prison and shot without trial, despite the fact that they were not implicated in the rising, as they were in prison during it. September-October, 1923.—2,000 pri_ ■ rer : taken aboard barges on the Danube at Loni-I’alanka and every night 40-50 of them killed with,bayonets ami drowned in the river. At Medkovetz, near Lorn, the priest Andrei Ignatoff hanged by an officer, while the population was compelled to witness this horror. At Tatar Pazardjik 200 prisoners were tortured and killed by machinegun fire. Fifteen students who came to look for their murdered relatives were slud over the fresh grave. At Philipopoli 90 of the most prominent members of the Communist I Party and Agrarians taken out of prison and killed in the fields, their bodies mutilated. | At Samokov 15 leading Trade IVnionistu ' Municipal Councillors, together with the Member of Parliament. Boris Hadji SotirofT, taken out of prison and their L-hrs cut to pieces while they were still alive. Even the American Protestants from the American college in Samokov wrote with horror and indignation about this appalling crime committed by the military against innocent men. Autumn. 1923. —Tsankoff’s agents kill Raico Daskaloff, member of the Stambuliski Cabinet, in Prague, and assassin acquitted by Cz.v< ho-Slovakian Government. June, 1924—Lieutenant Radev, member of the Military League, shoots Petko Pet k off, the peasant leader and M.P.. in front of the* King’s Palace. Pelkoff’s mother testified that her son was killed by order of General Rousseff, Minister of i<»r. head of the Military League. Assassin still aI large. The democratic bourgeois lead Lar MaliuolT writes in his paper, “Zname,’’ that “the murder id" Putthoff is political. . . and the Govern.

.. of Tsankoff is a Government of conspiracy, and because it cannot give peace to the country it must go. (October 21, 1921). August 15, 1924. — Mayor Dashin, oi Hamukov, assassinated in centre <4 the town. Murderer still at large. Dashin was the Workers’ leader ami hated by local bourgeoisie. August 31, 1924. —The notorious paid agent of Tsankoff —Todor AlexandroiT, Macedonian leader —shoots his rival, Aleko Pasha, while latter was speaking at a congress. Alexandroff j killed in revenge. Tsankoff’s agents 'ehoot 200 best known Macedonian militants, including the Communist MJ’.. Dimo Hadji Dimoff, Kovatcheff (a judge), Gheorghi Atauasoff, and nt her prominent Federalist Macedon, in ns. Dec.unber 23. 1924.—Peter TchaulefT, (he famous Macedonian chieftain, who led the revolution in 1903 against | Turkish rule in Macedonia, assassinated by Stephanoll*, in Milan, Italy. I Steph an off admitted that he had a I legal passport from Tsankoff and came to Italy expressly for the purpose of killing TchaulefT. I February 11, 1925.—Vuitcho IvanofT. leader and founder of the 'Teachers * i I'nion, enticed by two detectives to go to the police station, found the I same day on the crowded streets ot Sofia strangled with wire. I February 13, 1925. — Milelf, the brain of the Fascist Government, ' not- rious murderer of 209 Macedonian Federalists, shot in Sofia. •i.-,ry 17. 1925. —Todor Strashimiroff. Communist M.P., shot in the centre of Sofia. Murderer caught. March 6. 1925.—0n1y Communist : f alive, Haralampi StoyanofT, leader of the Railroad Workers, shot while coming out of Parliament. April S, 1925. —Bulgarian publicity agent, former member of Social. Democratic Party, Tchitel •>-sky. ad. mitse in “Manchester Guardian” that Stoyanoff and Strashimiroff were assassinated by Tsankoff Goverame: 1 . | as reprisal for tlm death of Mit -fT I April IS, 1925.—“ Daily Express*’ states (hat Milan Manoleff Maeedo. ni: i anarchist, is fo mu nmugied nd mutilated on same spot where Milcff was shot, with a stati meat that l e had confessed having ki ! b'd Mileff and was put to death by :he ?J.accdonian Organisat lon. Thus during the l:;.-d two months Tsankoff has ki'.e I two hiiurnt lend, ers of the working class, and with ’his scries of murders, which in January alone numbered over 159, the new reign of terror was initiated. At the beginning of April Tsankoff organised another plot, with the air of his secret service, in order to have a pretax* far destroying tin- Ay:- i i ; i mmun. The cathedral outrage was ihe work !of an unbalanced man or an anarchist. 'The Hsts and the Agrarian ‘ had nothing to gain from such a cruel and stupid act. They stood to lose, not only their influence with the Bulgarian people, but thousands of their best militants as well. The Central News stated on April 21 that 4,000 had already been shot and another 10,090 imprisoned, while many thousands were fleeing to hide in the mountains.

April 20. 1925.—Bulgarian Minister in London, Hadji Misheff, in interview given to “Morning Post,” says: “The ideal thing would be to expel all Communists from Bulgaria, but there are many Bulgarians who are themselvvcs under the influence of Moscow, making it a very delicate situation for the Government.” The Communists received 200,000 votes at the last election, hold under the Fascist Terror.

Tsankiff has the wholehearted support of the “Times” correspondent, who is managing their propaganda in England, having published a special Bulgarian supplement to the “Times” a few weeks ago (costing about £10,000), in which the assassination of Stambuliski, Ministers Douparinoff. Da ska 1 off, and others was treated in a humorous vein, as if these political leaders were a bunch of bandits.