TRAGEDY IN BULGARIA.
SOLDIERS' FATAL MISTAKE. BRAVE CONSTABLE'S SACRIFICE. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received July 8, 8.5 p.m.) SOFIA, July 8. A tragic" affair, which resulted in tho death of a bravo constable, occurred in the Kritchim district of Sofia. A body of Bulgarian cavalry had been scouring that neighbourhood in search of a band of assassins who had tried to kill the Prima Minister, M. Andrea .Liaptcheff, as he was returning from tho opening of a new road. The soldiers believed they had como upon the assassins and fired. . They shot at the wrong car ami killed a constable who had been escorting tho Minister of Works, M. S Vassileff. The constable flung himself in front of the Minister when the shots rang out and was mortally wounded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20302, 9 July 1929, Page 11
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