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Alexander Stambuliski, deposed Premier of Bulgaria, was killed at Vetren near Slavovitza, his birthplace, according to despatches, which may not give authentic information. Permission had been given to Stambuliski to visit his birthplace. Peasants attacked his guards; Stambuliski was freed. Soldiers later attacked the peasants and in the fight which ensued Stambuliski was shot dead...
...about the ex-Premier, some of which are doubtless untrue. It is said that he wished to accompany King Boris to the United States to find him an American queen. Another report has it that he wished to make King Boris abdicate so that he could become King of Bulgaria. The greatest value of these yarns, as they probably are, is that they faithfully portray the character of the man. He was in the habit of speaking with almost brutal directness, i. e., his warning to King Ferdinand in September, 1915: " If you plunge this country and its peace-loving...
Thus the tables have been turned with consummate neatness on the Stambuliski Cabinet for its ministers are now in prison, while those of the Suchkoff and Malmoff Cabinets, imprisoned by Stambuliski for drag ging Bulgaria into the World War on the side of Germany, are free...
...revolutionists represent no particular party. Roughly they might be specified as the Urbanites. Ostensibly they are the intellectuals of Bulgaria who have rallied to the standard of Professor Zankoff in Sofia, now their premier. But the most strident, if not the most numerous, ingredient of this conglomerate mass is the old pro-German, anti-Serbian group. And in this group lie germs of further Balkan troubles. The states which have hitherto been able to keep on good terms with Agrarian Bulgaria, and especially Serbia, will not look with pleasure on the advent of another party of such different standards...
This new party, however, is not founded on a rock and in the natural course of events may be expected to fall from power. Bulgaria is an agricultural country and therefore by far the stronger party will always be that which is supported by the peasants. Stanboulisky and his Agrarians succeeded in keeping the peace within the country and without and it will be but a question of time before they again hold the rein. In the interim Europe can only hope that nothing will occur of such violence as to upset the precarious balance of the Balkan Peninsula...