A GIRL ABDUCTED
' SERIOUS RIOT ENSUES. SIXTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SOFIA, March IS. Stifnhoff, a Bulgarian, having abducted a Mussulman girl, the courts decided Hint, being a minor, she must, be returned to her parents. The populace at Rustchuk supported Sufalioff's resistance to the decree, and a riot ensued, in which the police killed' 16 and wounded' a hundred others, many seriously. The Minister of the Interior is widely blamed, and likewise the police and military at Rustchuk for orcr-zealocsiy and culpably executing the order of the court the face of the public excitement. The troops have been reinforced, King Ferdinand is reported to bo much unset by the incident.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14784, 17 March 1910, Page 7
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