TROUBLE IN BALKANS
BULGAR GOVERNMENT MAY HAVE FALLEN WARNING FROM RUSSIA (By Teloßraph—Press Association-Copyright) Recd. 11.30 p.m. London, Jan. 4. Telephone and telegraphic communications between Turkey and Bulgaria have broken off since yesterday and it is rumoured in Istanbul that the Bulgarian Government has fallen. This is reported by the Associated Press Istanbul correspondent, who adds that there has b-oen tension in Bulgaria since the Cairo conference between Turkish and Allied leaders, also alarm at the result of the Russian advance. The Istanbul correspondent, of The Times says: The Bulgarians have been warned from Moscow that the time has coma when they must make up their minds whether to continue to play the German game to lhe end or attend to their own interests, it is assumed in Istanbul that the. Russians, who are well informed on conditions in Bulgaria, would not. have taken the trouble to give the warning unless they had grounds for the belief that. it. might have some effect. Information from Sofia tends to confirm this view.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 3, 5 January 1944, Page 5
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