THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 22, 1938.
I WAS PAID $40.
TO ASSASSINATE
CHIEF OF STAFF'
Sofia, Oct. 11. He has not revealed the names Stoil Vasseff Kiroff, thirty-of the men who gave him his "or- three-year-old ex-policeman, is ders," but he says there were two alleged to have. confessed of them and that they spoke the in hospital to-night that Macedonian dialect.
he "received orders" to assassinate } Kiroff last month was released General Peeff, Bulgarian Army,from a prison in which are many Chief of Staff, this afternoon, and political prisoners, mostly Mace- One donians and Communists. that he was paid £40.
General Peeff was shot dead theory advanced is that the assas as he was walking to his office.sination took place because these Major Stoyanoff, who was seriously prisoners were not released under the wounded' in trying to save his chief, the amnesty which marked "died late to-night.
twentieth anniversary of King ***Kfroff is alleged to have two re- Boris's accession.
volvers and to have turned one of them, on himself, receiving wound in the head.
5,000 MILE
DAY TRIPS IN FUTURE
19
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ARRESTS EXPECTED
The police are taking, strong pre- cautionary measures, and other. arrests are expected.
To-night there are large crowds in the streets and outside the War- Ministry, which is heavily draped in mourning. Mounted police are everywhere.
The Council of Ministers and the Army Council have been in session all evening, and King. Boris is re- turning by special train from his summer palace at Varna,
The visit of Herr Walther Funk. German Minister of Economics, who has was due in Sofia to-morrow, been postponed for twenty-four hours.
London, October 11. The pilot, Captain D. C. T Bennett, is no day-dreamer, but gées Mercury's record flight to This afternoon for three hours South Africa as a "vision of the telephonic and telegraphic com- future:!'
munication with abroad was cut off This, he says in a report to Im- even for legations, and only one been perial Airways on the flight, from brief official statement has Dundee to Orange River of the issued. This said that General upper component of the Mayo com- Peeff was "Killed by a madman." posite, aircraft-a long range re- The assailant's name was not given, cord for seaplanes.
It points, declares. Captain Ben- nett to a time when air communica- tions between Britain and Africa, and Britain and other parts of the
DANCE GIRLS
Empire, will have been so speeded VANISH AT A
up that a five thousand mile flight will be regarded in the nature of
a "hop," a day's excursion.
RANGE IS QUADRUPLED Stressing the tremendous poten-