New-York tribune., 1922-05-22
Bull gar Revolt
ReportedWith.
kinginFlight
Story Reaches London
and Vienna That Pre-
mier Stamboulisky Has
Proclaimed a Republic
Fifteen Wrangel
Officers Expelled
Legation at Paris Denies
Rumors; Deal at Genoa
With Soviet a Factor

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With Soviet a Factor
VIENNA, May 81 { BY The Associated
Pressl. Conflicting reports have
reached here of Bulgarian revolution.
Dispatches from Belgrade say that
King Boris has fed to Varna, and that
Premier Stamboulisky, who represents
the peasants and agrarians, has, with
his followers, proclaimed a republic
A state of civil war, it is further re-
ported, exists, and fifteen of General
Wrangel's officers have been expelled
Agram advces, however, declare that
train from Sofia arrived at Bel
grade at ) O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
and those aboard reported comparative
quiet. General Alexandrov having is
sued counter proclamation at Sofia,
calling upon the populace to remain
loyal to the King
Georg Tchitcherin, Russian Soviet
according to an Agram paper, reached
Bulgarian Premier would eXpel
Wrangel's troops from Bulgaria he
would have the support of the entire
Bulgarian Communist element. A dis
patch TO the 'Freie Presse" from Sofia
says that attempt to carry out the
expulsion of these troops prccipitated
trouble.
No Official Information
The Bulgarian Legation and the Aus
trian Foreign Office are wholly without
adviccs on the reported revolution. In
formation received here is limited to
conflicting Jugo-Slav press reports.
LONDON. May 21.-A Central News
dispatch from Belgrade gives 4 report
from the frontier that the Stamboulisky
party in Bulgaria has united with the
Communists and proclaimed republic
King Boris is reported to have fed to
Narna
SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 20 - p. ns)
{ BY. The Associated Press The Am
bassadors' Council has ordered the Bull
garian government to proceed immedi-
ately with the disarmament Of the
Wrangel troops on Bulgarian territory
and the dissolution Of their military or
ganizatlon. These measures previously
had been begun by the government, with
a view to expelling the Wrangel troops,
who were accused OF plotting with the
bourgeois parties to overturn Premier
Stamboulisky.
The peasant party, Of which STAN
boulisky is the leader, has convoked q
great congress on May 28 of $4,000
delegates to approve the peasant gov
ernments distinctly anti bourgeois pol
icy. AS it is feared that anmosity may
be shown by citizens Of Sofia such as
bourgeois former officers, intellectuals
and Macedonians. the government has
mustered large forces Of police to pro
tect it and the peasant congress.
PARIS, May 81 (By The Associated
Press The Bulgarian Legation here
has issued categorical denial Of the
published report that Communist rev.
olution has broken out at Sofia and that
King Boris has fled to Varna
News from Sofia last night says
the statement. ''shows that complete
calm regns throughout the whole coun-
try, which is rejoicing with gratitude
that Bulgara's good faith and pacific
spirit have been fully recognized by the
delegates of all the powers at Genoa"
Although Bulgaria has been recover
ing more rapidly from the war than
many d-European nations, social dis
orders there have been frequent in the
last two years. Russian Communists
have been at the bottom OF much of the
trouble, and strong measures have been
taken on several occasions to check the
spread of Red propaganda among the
Bulgarian peasants.
Wrangel Refugees a Problem
The admission to the country Of
more than $4,000 Russian refugees,
many Of them former members of Cen
eral Wrangel's anti Bolshevik army,
served to aggravate the difficulties Of
the government. Wrangel himself was
specifically barred, because it had long
been felt that he might attempt to or
ganize on Bulgarian soil new drive
against Russia through the Ukraine,
but his followers have kept up a con-
siderable agitation without him. To
cope with this difficulty the Sofa gov
ernment disarmed all the Wrangel
forces and then passed a law making
work compulsory.
Last October the Moscow govern
ment sent mission to Bulgaria to buy
grain, but the Sofia Ministry ordered
they entered the country. A consid-
cradle quantity of Jewels said once to
have belonged to the Russian imperial
treasury was seized in the mission s
baggage. 1t was feared that the money
raised by sale of these jewels would
be used for the spread Of soviet prop
aganda.
Riots 1ncited in 1920
In January, 1920, there was revo-
! lutionary movement among Bulgarian
workingmen that had to be put down
by force of arms. Martial law was de-
clared in Sofia and King Boris and his
family were put upder special guard
Widespread riots resulted in destruc
tion of property. IN Mag of the same
year the Bulgarian Socialists plotted
the overthrow Of the government, but
the arrest Of more than 500 of the
rebels served to break up the plot. The
Bulgarian authorities learned that
many of the strikes in various indus
tries were being supported with Rus
sian money.
The Sofia Cabinet maintained large
army for many months after the
armistce, despite frequent warning
from the Allies that this was a viola
tion of the treaty. The Bulgarian de
| fense was that without the army tt
maintain order the country would bt
plunged into anarchy. Another ordel