MURDERS DENIED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17528, 4 May 1925, Page 12

MURDERS DENIED.

! BULGAR [LEGATION’S STATEMENT. [Received May 3. 5.5 0.m.) LONDON/ May 1. The .Bulgarian legation at London lia:issued a communique denying Mr J, Wedgwood's statements, i The document states that the persons arrested throughout Bulgaria da not exceed two thousand, of whom six hundred have been [liberated. None have yet been tried, still less executed. Regret is expressed that Mr Wedgwood and his friends spent only 1 liree days at Sofia. It' they had remained longer 11 1 fey would have learned that the rumours to which they had given credence had no foundation in fact. Tli c Agrarian Communist conspiracy did not conic from the constitutional Opposition. The latter, including the Socialists. Democrats, and Liberals, enjoyed full political liberties and a free Press. Mr Wedgwood, Mr W. Mackinder, and Mr P. B. Malone, members of the House of Commons who recently re turned from .Bulgaria, re poled that alter the explosion in Sofia, lorries left prisons during the night, taking batche. of prisoners to the country to bo shot The Government, which came into power through :i series of murders, beginning with the assassination of Premier Stamboulisky, in 1923, had been guilty ot ruthless tyranny, and of murdering their political*opponents. Many thousands had been tortured, strangled* or pounded to death. [‘This will surely arouse a volcanic upheaval.” they stated. They urged all British and American peoples to protest against these executions and imprisonments without trial.