BULGARS’ REVOLUTION

Southland Times, Issue 18965, 13 June 1923, Page 5

BULGARS’ REVOLUTION

COUNTRY SETTLING DOWN STAMBOULISKI STILL FREE i (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, June 11. . (Received June 12, 8.30 p.m.) A message from Belgrade shows that Stambouliski is still free. The new Government instituted a big search with a view to securing his arrest. The country is settling down under the new regime. There are isolated disturbances, but nothing of a pretentious character. Sofia is quiet. The police prevented threatened outbreaks. One report gives the casualties as 80. The Minister of Commerce expresses the intention of the revolutionaries to remain on the best, possible terms with the Great Powers and neighbours. FUTURE WITH EX-PREMIER. NEW DICTATOR PRO-GERMAN. PARIS, June 11. (Received June 12, 8.110 p.m.) The general impression in diplomatic circles is that the crux of the Bulgarian position is the fate of Stambouliski. If he evades capture he may rally a peasant army far exceeding in number the small regular army. The Agrarian Unions have 100,000 rifles and many machine-guns, as Stambouliski chose to maintain a large irregular peasant militia, as well as a regular army which ousted him. Zankop, the new Dictator, is known to have pronounced pro-German sympathies, and he has the wholehearted support of the disbanded Bulgarian army, meh from which are hourly flocking into Sofia and asking to be enlisted in a volunteer army. Indeed the whole country is suddenly suffering from war fever.