TENSION IN BULGARIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1944, Page 3

TENSION IN BULGARIA

RUMOUR THAT CABINET HAS FALLEN

FOLLOWING ON RUSSIAN WARNING. DENIAL BY THE GERMANS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 4. Telephone and telegraph communications between Turkey and Bulgaria have been broken off since yesterday, and it is rumoured in Istanbul that the Bulgarian Government has fallen. This is reported by the Istanbul correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. He adds that there has been tension in Bulgaria since the Cairo conference between the Turkish and Allied leaders and also alarm as a result of the Rusisan advance. The Istanbul correspondent of “The Times” says the Bulgarians have been warned from Moscow that the time has come when they must make up their minds whether to continue to play the German game to the end or attend to their own interests. It is assumed in Istanbul that the Russians, who are well informed on the conditions in Bulgaria, would not have taken the trouble to give the warning unless they had grounds for a belief that it might have some effect, and information from Sofia, the correspondent says, tends to confirm this view. A German source today denied a Swedish Press report that the Bulgarian Minister of War is the only member of the Cabinet remaining in office, and that he has declared a state of emergency.