BULGARIAN PLOTTERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 7

BULGARIAN PLOTTERS.

CHANGE IN TACTICS. ', . • " , •' * , REVOLUTION DISCARDED. Publicity AS SUBSTITUTE. ■;■'■■■ \" " / *- : ".-'■".'. ■ ,-;.•■ '• , ■■' r ■"*"■-'."•■'■ i- ! - fAN INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN. LEADERS TO GO ABROAD. By Telegraph Press Association—Copyright "• (Received : 5.5 p.m.) -;.'*, 1 Times. /:.; LONDON, May 18. The Sofia correspondent of the Times states that at a secret meeting between Todor Alexandroff ' and. •? other revolutionary leaders in Macedonia, it was decided to temporarily discard revolutionary " methods in : favour of an intensive publicity campaign abroad.

; It is stated - that :-M Alexandroff ' will shortly visit London and America, and that other leaders './ will go to different European countries. - t ;/'' ".'■','.- ' • This chanse of action by the revolutionary leaders followed upon the advice given to • them by certain prominent foreign sympathisers. This was Ito the effect that the moment is not ripe for armed . action. : , ~ .a;:..: ■ The leaders , may, however, find difficulty in restraining the extreme elements, who ara clamouring for a more active policy. , •" _ .■ '"

" The Sofia correspondent of the. Times t seated last }. week ■ that the Bavarian Government had .declared war; on the Communists, whose intrigues were bitterly denounced. : General . Rousseff, Minister for the Interior, speaking at . Sofia, definitely accused the Communists i of secretly conspiring with Moscow for the overthrow of the '.-; Government and ; the setting up of a Soviet regime. ? Hence- : forth, he declared, j:> the Communists would be excluded from all State appointments 'and attempts :at revolution would be : ruthlessly suppressed. v General ',• Rousseff appealed 4to all'- the democratic forces to rally round the Government. Referring "to the activities of the revolutionary leader, Alexahdroff and others in Macedonia, the"•;-. Belgrade correspon- '■ dent of V the Morning & Post if: recently wrote:—-For the past few weeks the Belgrade '; press has" been full of rumours of .the coming activity of Comitadji - bands ;on the Macedonian frontier. A few days ago these culminated in the exposure in the official and semi-official press of sundry alleged plots, said to have been formulated \ by Todor Alexandroff, with the secret consent and approval of the - Bulgarian , Government. The details of these alleged plots vary considerably. Some journals publish in great detail a plan 'by means ,of which,.. they <$ allege, , fee Bnlgar. Government. hopes to - bring the Macedonian question once more into the limelight in the hope , that it may be-- submitted' to aan international commission for investigation and settlement. - \ . Whatever the details} 1 of i' the f plots ■'■ they ■*'"'?disclose, the '■■■;. newspapers ;, seem all : to ''reach very, similar conclusions. Great military preparations must. be made ; : to overthrow these designs. :; Merely to . take police i or military action in _ the Affected district will not be sufficient: when the troops move forward ■„ toward -• Macedonia another' detachment must be sent' simultaneously 'to march on Sofia.