Word: tsankoff
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...contradictory despatches came daily from Sofia throughout the past week. They told a tale of arrests, shootings, more bombings, discoveries of incriminating Communist documents. There was an unbelievable amount of exaggeration which made the situation so hypertrophied that it looked like a veritable reign of terror, instituted by the Tsankoff Government. Indeed, Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, sitting at his desk in Moscow, was horrified to hear of the excesses committed at the orders of Premier Tsankoff and his Ministers...
Early rumors were lent much force when a group of British Laborites in Bulgaria denounced the Tsankoff Government for its tyranny; but it subsequently appeared that they had never been in a position to judge accurately the situation. The strong-armed revolt which opened the eyes of the world two weeks ago (TIME, Apr. 27) had of necessity been put down by strong-armed methods...
...second, then fled pellmell. Amid cries of the wounded and dying the military threw a cordon around the stricken area, filled with poisonous fumes from the exploded pyroxylin bomb. Surgeons, soldiers and members of the Cabinet-except Minister of the Interior Rouseff and Minister of Justice Boloshersky (dead), Premier Tsankoff and War Minister Vulkoff (slightly injured)-rendered first aid to the victims. When the final accounting of the grim tragedy was made, more than 150 persons, including 20 women and 10 children, 12 generals, the Mayor of Sofia and his entire family were found dead; hundreds were injured...