RUMANIA ASKED TO EXPLAIN
BULGARIAN ALLEGATION TWENTY-TWO MEN SHOT NEAR FRONTIER ,B; T.-legi-aph-—Press Assor.ation —Copyright) Received May 15, 9-25 p.m. LONDON, May 15. The Sofia correspondent of The Times says that Rumania will be asked to explain Rumanian policemen’s alleged cold-blooded murder by machinegun of 22 Bulgarian-born Rumanians al Belilza on May 9. The Bulgarian version is that 70 Bulgarians mobilised at Bclitza deserted and fled to the frontier. Twenty-five were arrested and maltreated and made to sign an unintelligible declaration. All but three were shot dead by the guard in Indjekeuy forest. The survivors escaped and told the story. An official version from Bucharest declares that the victims were Rumanian citizens. They were not Bulgarian comitadjis but highway robbers who attacked motorists, including M. Zamferescu, director of an aeroplane firm, and General Fotescu, robbing them ot £350. The police were justified in shooting them when trying to escape while under arrest.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 113, 16 May 1939, Page 7
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