BULGARIA AND THE WAR
ANGRY PEASANTS. EX-MINISTERS ILL-TREATED. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright VIENNA, September 30. Details of the conflict between the Peasants’ Party, which controls the Government, and the united bourgeoise parties show that both arranged to hold congresses at Tirnovo simultaneously, to which the rival leaders iourneyed in the same train from Sofia, Peasants at Dubnik held up the train at 4 o’clock in the morning and removed and dl-treated the supporters of the bourgeoise parties, including several half-dressed ex-Ministers. The peasants cut their beards and threatened to hang them. Similar scenes were witnessed at other stations.. The cx-Minis-ters were finally arrested at Tirnovo and subsequently released. The Peasants’ Congress resolved that a plebiscite of the electors should be taken to determine the guilt of ex-Ministers regarding the war. It was decided that if over 50 per cent, of the elector's vote them guilty they shall be exiled for a decade. If, over 60 per cent, they shall be sentenced to 10 or 15 years* imprisonment. If over 75 per cent, they shall be executed.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 5
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