BULGARIA’S NEW ORDER.
RETIRED COLONEL’S INFLUENCE
LONDON, May 24. The News-Chronicle’s Sofia correspondent says: Bulgaria’s real dictator is not even a member of the new Government. He is Damien Veltcheff, a retired colonel, who led the conspirators when they burst into the palace and demanded the establishment of a military dictatorship. % King Boris is reported to have offered to abdicate rather than submit, but the conspirators persuaded him to change his mind. The conspirators were mostly officers who served under Veltcheff. He refused a post in the new* Government, but dominates it. King Boris has lived in virtual retirement since the putsch. No news of any kind is given out from the palace. RECEPTION TO KING. TROUBLE IN MACEDONIA. Received May 25. 12.40 p.m. SOFIA, May 24. King Boris had a great reception when appearing in public for the first time since the coup d’etat. This is accepted as evidence that he is reconciled to the new Cabinet.
Sofia continues to be cjuiet, but there is trouble in Macedonia, where the Government is bent on breaking the revolutionary organisation controlling 20,000 well-armed followers, which have been terrorising the country for twenty years, causing constant friction between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 May 1934, Page 7
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199BULGARIA’S NEW ORDER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 May 1934, Page 7
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