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Because of frequent raids on Serbian territory by the Bulgarian Comitadji*, Yugo-Slavia sent a stiff ultimatum to Bulgaria, declaring that unless these raids ceased Yugo-Slavia would cross the frontier. A war was thought to be averted by the prompt mediation of Premier Poincaré of France, who suggested a conference for this week to settle the question. Both Governments agreed...
...Bulgaria has a law securing religious freedom and immunity of worship to all religious sects. The Dunovisti make up a sect of 15,000 souls. For the last 21 years these Bulgarians, under the leadership of Peter Dunoff, a graduate of Boston University, have been holding annual conventions in the Tirnova district of Bulgaria. This year the meeting of the Dunovisti was forbidden. A delegation of three Dunovisti called on M. Russef, Bulgaria's Minister of the Interior, cited the law of Bulgaria concerning religious freedom, asked that the ruling of the district governor be set aside, as opposed...
...note Charges that the Bulgarian authorities joined the White Russians living in Bulgaria in instituting a regular system of persecution against the mission. Torture, murder, beatings, imprisonment, confiscation are cited in numerous cases. The Bulgarian Government is accused of conducting a "scandalous campaign " against the mission by insisting (apparently without good cause) that "many documents of an incriminating nature had been in its offices...
...fought. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has, since the year 328 A. D., kept intact many of the sacred buildings and sites of Palestine. Most of the income of this little patriarchate came from Russia. This support is now almost entirely gone. The falling exchange of Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, has almost wiped out the revenue of the Patriarch, and the hospitality which he and his flock are constantly called upon to show toward visiting Christians has, since 1920, piled up a debt of $3,500,000. Colonel J. B. Barron, Chairman of the British Commission of Liquidation and Control...
...delegates of Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania will consider the results of the Lausanne Conference, the application of Greece for membership in their exclusive little coterie, their policy toward the new rulers of Bulgaria and the prospects of a Hungarian international loan...