BULGARIAN REVOLT.
THE CASUALTIES. 2000 KILLED: 5000 PRISONERS. WHY THE RISING FAILED; Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received October 4, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, October 3. The Morning Post's Belgrade correspondent says' it is estimated that 2000 were killed and 5000 taken prisoner in the Bulgarian, insurrection. The Communist leader, Dimitroff, declares that the revolution failed because of our shortage of weapons, and the fact that the Government' had armed 10,000 Russian monarchists and 10,000 Macedonians'.. The revolutionaries had not aimed at a proclamation of the Soviet, but the establishment of a peasant government. They had not killed auyone except in the fighting, whereas the Government's forces took no prisoners.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15357, 4 October 1923, Page 5
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109BULGARIAN REVOLT. Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15357, 4 October 1923, Page 5
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