Evening star., 1923-09-30
The Story the Week Has Told

their sacred bands have been swelled by peas
ant converts. and no doubt many other peas
ants ant, have have participated In the outbreaks as al
lies. But the complexion of the business Is
communist. The peasants are tools. :
their opportunity. The minister of interior dis
covered their plans for co-crdinated movement
throughout the country and clapped the most
important in Quod. Result: Instead of the CO.
ordinated movement contemplated. which
pressed with no great difficulty by army de-
tion. In an area in northwest Bulgaria. about
halfway between Sofia and the Danube, where
kovatz, there is. according to an oficial com
munique from Sofia concentration Of about
whom the government has dispatched a force
OF 1000 troops The latter should be able
WHICH, II % one may believes she eommunaue
there will be nothing lacking to the restora-
little cleaning up In odd corners. CAS- this
goes to press, learn that the battle was sue
cessful)
There is curious aspect of the situation.
The treaty of Neuilly allows to Bulgaria the
following armed forces only: A regular army
OF 10000, frontier corps of 5000, and 10000
police-all volunteers. Both the small pay and,
in the case of the army the long term Of en-
listment (viz., twelve years., have prevented re-
crutment of these forces beyond the following
strengths approximate fgures): Army, 7500
frontier corps, 500; police. 1000. Obviously
these forces were insufficient to deal with in
surrection large scale Therefore, Premier
Tzankoff. representing to the interallied COM
mission of military control (still in Bulgaria
supervising execution of the Neuilly treaty.
how "the third internationale was planning
to extend sovetism to Bulgaria and then to the
other Balkan states and thereafter in a grand
sweep westward. and how Bulgaria was
fighting the worlds struggle against COM
munism" requested their permission to double
r s w % OF Prsss fhe
commissioners obtained from their governments
to increase it's military forces to such
strength as 1T might deem necessary to cope
lied governments really made so wide a con-
cession 1t is highly significant. The Tzankof
taint through support thereof by the pro-Ger-
man element, of a militarist temper. of reso-
ing bulgaria a corridor to the Aegean
and for recovering Macedonia. But all
wind when serious communist menace pre-
sents itself. But there is another considera-
that the allied governments are most satisfied
than otherwise with the Tzankof government
capable and honest patriot without pro-Ger-
man chauvinist leanings. Probably no bet
governs only by aid of the military, but the
only alternatives in sight to bourgeois gov
agrarian Much may favor the prin-
ciple of peasant government in country
so per cent of whose population are peasants,
the Agriarians are obviously not yet mt TO
WELD the power.
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United States of America.-More than ma
jority of the lower house of the Oklahoma leg
islature met in their state capitol on Wednes-
day, with the declared purpose of instituting
impeachment proceedings against the govern
or of the state. AS the speaker pro tenn. rails
ed his hand to call the meeting to order a
military officer bade those present disperse
by order of the governor. They dispersed. The
latest developments in this strange contro-
versy will be reported next week.