REVOLT IN BULGARIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1923, Page 5

REVOLT IN BULGARIA.

HEAVY FIGHTING. REPORTED IN SMALL AREAS. THE PEASANTS ARMED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received June 13, 5.5 p.m. Belgrade, June 12. It is reported from the Plevna district that ten thousand peasants under arms disarmed the garrison. The Government is sending strong detachments there. Heavy fighting is reported at various points between the revolutionaries and peasants, but owing to the censorship the result is not known. Two of M. Stambuliski’s Ministers, M. Duparinoff and Stanaseoff have escaped. The latter is organising the peasantry at Radomir. M. Stambuliski is believed to he somewhere in the interior organising resistance. CALM IN THE SOUTH. DISARMING THE PEASANTS. Received June 13, 7,45 p.m. Sofia, June 12. M. Boteff’s resistance in Radomir collapsed and he and thirty followers remaining loyal to him were arrested, as well as M. Duparinoff. ex-Minister of Justice. Telegrams from important centres in the south report that all is calm. Troops in motor-cars and cavalry are disarming the peasantry, who display apathy, which is attributed to the approaching harvest and the fact that the leaders in the north have been arrested. Fighting continues at Teschen, where both sides have been reinforced, and considerable casualties are reported. SENSATIONAL CHARGES. WEALTH OF EX-MINISTERS. Received June 14, 1240 a.m. London, June 12. The Sofia correspondent of the Daily Express states the new Government has issued a sensational statement pointing out that though the ex-Min-isters were supposed to be poor men it was evident they had been living in luxury. Hoards of wealth were found in the residences of several ex-Minis-ters, including £45.000 worth of foreign currency at M. Stambpuliski’s farm. The ex-Ministers had used millions of leva worth of State capital to buy buildings and estates and were the owners of agrarian national stores, which with branches throughout the country, were gaining control of Bulgaria’s whole import and export trade.