BULGARIAN AREAS.
PREVENTING PILLAGING. SEVERE MEASURES TAKEN. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received April 26, 5.5 p.m.) SOFIA. April 26. Severe measures have been adopted to prevent pillaging throughout the area devastated by the recent earthquakes. The inhabitants have been forbidden to remain in the streets after 9 p.m. and the gendarmerie have received orders to shoot at sight anyone who breaks this rule. It is announced that profiteers in food or in building material will bo given 25 lashes with the whip in the streets and will also have their property confiscated. King Boris received journalists to-day. He said he had travelled through 375 miles of desolation and had been deeply affected by terrible sights.
RELIEF FOR SUFFERERS. LARGE GOVERNMENT GRANT. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SOFIA, April 25. Tho Bulgarian Parliament has accepted tho Government's proposals for tho relief of the sufferers through the earthquakes. Tho damage is estimated at about £3,730,000, and that sum is to bo provided.
A revised list of the casualties shows that 103 people were killed and 700 injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 11
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