BIG DEATH ROLL
SOFIA’S TRAGEDY.,
OVER 200 DEAD RECOVERED.
POLICE AIAKE MANY ARRESTS^
BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COI’YB.IGHT. BELGRADE, April 20. The Jugo-Slav Foreign Office lias received information that Bulgaria is seeking permission from the Great Rowers to enlarge her army temporariiy by ten thousand men, so that she may maintain order and combat the rjr* activities of the Communists.' . . ' Telegraphic communication with Sana ■ is cut off. Messengers, fj'om-.S.otia . 4. •: state that the search lor, bodies in the Cathedral continues. Two hundred dead have been recovered and 13(K) injured. The upper structure of the cathedral has fallen in. The police made at least five hundred arrests, of which 280 are in Sofia, including a woman who was found to have forty-four pounds of explosives in. her baggage. The general belief is that the murder of King Boris is the basis of- the plot. The • murderers hoped the'Royal funeral would result -in assembling all' prominent Bulgarians in. the catliedraL Instead, the death ,of a general,gay© a lesser opportunity for a bomb outrage. \
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 April 1925, Page 5
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