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STAMBOULISKI’S DEATH. PEASANT FORCE ROUTED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). (United Service.) LONDON, June 18. Further picturesque details of M. Stambouliski’s fate show that ten soldiers name to the village to arrest him. “It is impossible that there should be any other Government. I am Premier, and they must be insurgents to open fire,” Stambouliski told his corporal. Fire was opened in the meantime and the whole village aroused by church-befls. Then the local priest, holding in one hand a cross and the other a bomb, went from house to house calling on the peasants to prepare to defend their Premier. M. Stambouliski offered the peasants 500 levas a day and soon collected about a thousand followers, who, believing it was only a minority mutiny, suffered themselves to be led against the soldiers. A pitched battle developed on the banks of the Topolnitza, but the peasants, armed only with rifles and machine guns against the troops with artillery, w’ere soon routed and fled, leaving M. Stambouliski to fend for himself.
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Southland Times, Issue 18972, 20 June 1923, Page 5
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169BULGARIA Southland Times, Issue 18972, 20 June 1923, Page 5
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