KING BORIS'S RISK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22268, 22 May 1934, Page 9

KING BORIS'S RISK

A BOLD COURSE TAKEN ENMITY OF MACEDONIANS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 21. (Received May 21, at 10 p.m.) The Daily Mail's Belgrade correspondent says: " Jugoslavia clearly recognises that King Boris's reason for seizing dictatorial power was to liquidate the impossible stalemate between two factions. King Boris runs a terrible risk from his present bold course, which, though directed towards ending a quarter of a century's enmity between Bulgaria and Jugoslavia, sets him at odds with the ruthless Macedonian comitadjis, who will stop at nothing to prevent the signing of a Bulgar-Jugo-slavian pact, and will crush King Boris unless he crushes them. Already Bulgars and Macedonians, under the leadership of M. Mihailoff, are fiercely fighting at Petritch, which is believed to be Macedonia's secret arsenal." BRITISH PRESS COMMENT. LONDON, May 21. (Received May 21, at 10 p.m.) The Times says: " The Bulgarian coup d'etat involves the suppression of the Macedonian rebels in the mountains of south-western Bulgaria! That the makers of the coup d'etat have thus far avoided bloodshed must be set down to their credit, but it is obvious that the risks of the course they have: followed are bound to arouse the anxiety of their friends in Bulgaria." The Daily Mail, under the heading "Europe Doing Well," congratulates Bulgaria and Latvia on clearing out "the old gangs." The paper adds: " The people are sick of the spectacle of many-tongued demagogy trying to govern their countries."