BALKAN TURMOIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1925, Page 2

BALKAN TURMOIL.

XUSTKALIAN \ND N.Z. O'Jlf.E ASSOCIATION

“Oil DEAD IX CATHEDRA!

LARGER ARMY SOUGHT. BELGRADE, April 20

The .Tugo-Slav Foreigin t'Hico has received information that Bulgaria, is seeking permission from the Diva Powers to enlarge her army temporarily to ten thousand men, and thus maintain order, and combat flu* activities of the Communists.

Telegraphic, (ouimunication with So fia is cut off.

Messengers from FotJx state that the search for bodies in the Cathedral continues. Two bundled dead have now Ik'Oii recovered, and thirteen hundred were injured.

The uviper structure of the Cathedral has fallen in.

The police have made at least five hundred arrests, of which 280 arc in Sofia, including a woman who "as found lo have forty-four pounds of oxnlosives in her baggage.

The general belief is that the minder of King Boris was the basis of the plot. The murderers hoped that the Boyal funeral would result in the assembling of all the prominent Bulgarians in the Cathedral. Instead the death of the General gave a lesser opportunity for a bomb outrage.