The Alaska daily empire., 1923-04-02

were: That they declared war with
 out the sanction Of Parliament; that
 they prepared the way for war on the side of Germany without considering the welfare sf the country and the advantages of siding With the En- tenta: that several of he Ministers
 were bribed by army contractors, and that thessei2ure of enemy property in Bulgaria was ordered without Par liamentary consent. The accused men langnsled in pri- son from the time of their arrest in
 1918, until tlH formation Of spe-
 cial High Court and the beginning of
 their trial, in October, 1921. The 1 trial lasted more than year. so voluminous was the evidence. The
 defense was conducted by one of the I prisoners, Dinlitri Tontchef, Minister
 of Finance under Radoslavof. an able
 barrister, and credited with being
 the brains of the Cabinet. The other
 defendants besides the missing Rado
 slayof. wore:
 | Pierre Peshef, former Minister of
 Public Instruction.
 1 Dobry Petkof, former Minister of l Public Works and one of the leaders
 of the former Germanophile party. l Ivan Popof, former Minister of Jus
 tice and Bulgarian delegate to the
 Brest-Litovsk conference of 1918.
 Dr. P. Dintchef, former Minister of Agriculture.
 Dr. A. Popof, former Minister of tho Interior.
 General Naidenof, formor Minister
 of War
 K. Apostolof, former Minister of
 Railways, Posts and Photographs. Veliko Koznichky, also a former
 Minister of Railways.
 General N. Jokof. commanderin-
 chief of the army during the war and l a Minister at tho outbreak of the 1 hostilitics.'
 | When the others were arrested Gen. eral Jekof returned from Austria
 where he had gone as Q convalescent, and surrendered to the authorities, ldeclaring that, as a soldier, he was ready to give an account of his ac- ! tivities. This made deep impress sion in his favor throughout the
 country.
 l Since the end of the trial the de- ! fendants have been held in the prison 1 of Sliven, in Southern Bulgaria. await 1 ing sentence.
 Former Premier Radoslavof was, as head of the Cabinet charged with be- 1 ing the one chiefly at fault for align 1 ing Bulgaria with the Central Pow CTS. In his defense, however, it was stated that he was but carrying out [ the policy laid down by ex-King Fer dinand.
 Delayed War Gall l He is a diplomatist of the old
 school and it wassdue to his diplo- matic powers. developed in long
 Ministerial experience, that he was
 able to delay Bulgaria's entrance into l the war until October, 1915, mean while, it was alleged, leading both
 the Entente and the party of the op-
 position to believe that under no cir
 cumstances would Bulgaria give ma terial aid to the enemies of Russia and the Allied powers. l Radoslavof was accused of making
 great concessions to the Germans in Bulgaria, oven conceding, it was charged, certain treaties, unknown to the members of his cahinet. He was
 also accused of favoring German
 business enterprises unduly, with benefit to himself.
 The trial of the Radoslavof Minis ters was entirely distinct from the charges now pending against the members of the Cueshof and Danef Cabinets and the Malinof Cabinet. The Gueshof and Dancf Ministers are to be tried on charges of in volying the country in the war with Turkey 10 years ago. and the Maiinod Ministers for not having cndeavored to arrange separate peace with the Entente in the World War.