BULGARIAN CRISIS.
200 BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE CAT! lEDRAL.
PLOT TO MURDER KING BORIS
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The Jugo-Slav Foreign Office lias received information from Bulgaria seeking permission from the Gre.it Powers to enlarge her army temporarily by 10,000 men and tints maintain order and combat the activities of the Communists.
Telegraphic communication with Sona is cut .off.
Messengers from Sofia state that the search for bodies in the- cathedral continues. Two hundred dead have been recovered and thirteen hundred injured. The upper structure of the cathedral has fallen in. The police have made tit loast 500 arrests, of which 280 are in Sofia, including a woman who was found to have 44 pounds of explosives iti her baggage. The general belief is t-liat the murder of King Boris was the basis of the plot. The murderers hoped a Royal funeral would result in the assembling of a.l prominent Bulgarians in tbu cathedral, instead of the death of a general, which gave a lesser opportunity for the bomb outrage.
TReuter’s Telegram.) (Received April 21. 11 a.m. SOFIA. April 20.
Minkoff, president of the Communistcommittee, was killed by the police when resisting arrest.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16710, 21 April 1925, Page 5
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