The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-04-24
Intervention to Follow Any
Attempt to Form Com
munistic Republic
BORIS is PRISONER
ROumania, JugO Slavia and
Greece Mobilizing Armies
at Frontiers
(By The Associated Press)


Dispatches from Sofia continue to
minimize the seriousness Of the Bull
garian situation, but indirect reports
from other Balkan centers picture
conditions as grave.
Balkan states are said to be taking
military precautions against the
spread Of the terrorism in Bulgaria
which flared to it's high mark with
the recent attack on King Boris, as
sassination of General Georghieff.
and the bombing of the Sveti Krahl
cathedral. where l60 persons were
killed.
Roumania is reported to be moving
troops toward both her Russian and
Bulgarian frontiers.
Jugo-Slavia is guarding her bor-
der; indirect reports say Greece is
mobilizing q part of her army, but
will not intervene unless Greek
frontiers are threatened. Greek ag-
ents are reported en- route to Bel
grade to renew negotiations for
Greek-Jugo-Siav alliance.
Roumanian Intervention will fol-
low any attempt to establish COM
munistic republic in Bulgaria, it is
declared in dispatches from Buch-
Arrest, where sensational accounts Of
the Bulgarian situation have been
received. Belgrade dispatches to
London say serious diplomatic
conflict between Roumania and Bull
garia appears possible unless Bull
garia abandons her suspicion of
Jugo-S1av completely in the campaign
Of terrorism in Bulgaria.
Jugo-Slav officials deny that a.
sistance has been given Bulgarian
assassins.
Sofia dispatches quote Minister Of
the Interior Rousseff as declaring
that not over !, 500 persons have been
arrested throughout Bulgaria dur
ing the campaign against terrorists.
He asserts that Moscow furnished
arms and money for the Subversives.
Premier Tsankoff declared the
statement attributed to the British
Labor Party members recently that
many had been killed in Bulgaria
without trial sis sheer calumny." He
declared the situation is calm
throughout the country.
Other indirect dispatches, how
ever, continue to report that King
Boris OF Bulgaria is virtually
prisoner in the royal palace at Sofia
under General Lazereff, head q, the
military Junta.
Sofia continues apparently under
virtual martial law The Bulgarian
militia is being increased as author
lied by the council of ambassadors
at Paris to cope with the situation
and Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and
Greece are protesting the increase.
REACTION SETTING IN
London, April 24.-The Herald,
organ Of the labor party, this morn
ing prints two column statement
made by Josiah c. Wedgwood, w.
Mackinder and P. D. Malone, mem
bers Of parliament who were in Sofia
at the time of the explosion of the
bomb in the cathedral and who sub
sequently made an investigation into
the Bulgarian situation. Messrs.
Wedgewood and Malone arrived in
Belgrade Wednesday from Sofia.
The statement says that Charles S.
Wilson, the American minister in
Sofia, w. A. F. Erskine, the British
minister. and the missionaries were
doing all that was possible to do to
stop the "ferocious reprisals against
the communists"
The statement adds that the
"Tzankof bulgarian premier) ter
ror is now producing a series of
reactions in Jugo-Slavia which are
gravely significant; the scarcely sup
pressed enmity between the two gov
ernments appears to be on the point
of open eXpreSsiOnn