CLOSER TIES
BULGARIAN PEASANTS AND COMMUNISTS Recd. 7 p.m. Rugby, Jan. 6. Closer ties between Bulgarian peasants and Communists and increased partisan sabotage are reported from Bulgaria, says Reuter’s Ankara correspondent. There is still no confirmation of news that the Bulgarian Government has been overthrown by a coup d’etat. Yugoslav resistance under General Tito, and the help it is receiving from the Allies, together with the results of the Teheran Conference, have brought the Communists close" to the Agrarian Party. The practical r suits are that the hitherto hostil? re"sants are now supnlving the partisans, who are estimated to number between 3009 and 7000. The activitv of thes* nertisans last week included th? ho din? lid of the Sofi'n-Plovdiv train three nights in succession alsi mi attack against a labour camp resulting in the of a few Bulgarian police - men. 8.0.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 6, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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