AN ABDUCTION.
SERIOUS TROUBLE IN A BULGARIAN TOWN. FIGHT WITH THE POLICE. SIXTEEN LIVES LOST. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 15. A message from Sofia states that M. Stifahoff, a Bulgarian, abducted a Mussulman girl, and the Courts decided that tho minor must bo returned to her parents. The populace at Rustchuk supported M. Stifahoff's resistance to tho decree, and the police, killed sixteen and wounded a hundred, many seriously. The Minister of the Interior is widely blamed, and likewise the police and military of Rustchuk for ovorzcalously and culpably executing the Court's order in face of the public excitement. The police have been reinforced.
King Ferdinand is said to bo much upset over tho affair.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15256, 17 March 1910, Page 7
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118AN ABDUCTION. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15256, 17 March 1910, Page 7
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