COMMUNIST PLOT
DESIGN ON BULGAR THRONE
EIGHTY LEADERS ARRESTED AN ELABORATE SCHEME By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Jan. 2, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Dec. 30. Details have been received from Sofia of an elaborate plot to overthrow the Bulgarian throne. Five hundred Communists arranged to take possession of the principal railway stations and public buildings in Sofia while 500 others seized the barracks. Officers of the army were to be arrested simultaneously in their homes. The plot was discovered and 82 of the leaders have been arrested. Some confessed their aim was to secure the abdication of the King and to establish a Communist dictatorship. Since the discovery «f the plot a number of Communists have committed suicide, while Srainoff, who was recently condemned to ten years’ imprisonment, threw himself from a thirdstorey window of the prison and was critically injured.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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140COMMUNIST PLOT Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1927, Page 9
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