16 JUNE 1923, Page 1

King Boris has accepted the situation. According to some reports

M. Stambulisky, with some Agrarian Guards and many peasants, has taken to the woods. There are many ironies in what has happened. -Less than seven weeks ago M. Stambulisky and his Agrarian followers were returned by 205 out of 236 constituencies in Bulgaria. In all the Allied countries he has been a popular character ever since, in 1914, he courageously opposed the pro- German policy of King Ferdinand and M. Radoslavoff. He was then thrown into prison, but at the end of tha war he becamePrimeMinister —and also, in effect, dictator. As dictator he made the fatal mistake of practically abolishing the Opposition. No statesman can do that without paying the penalty, and M. Stambulisky has paid it. Standing forth as the champion of the peasants, he thought that he could divest himself of the services of the well-to-do, who happen to be the people with brains and intellectual training.