* * * * In the early hours of last
Saturday the Bulgarian Government under the peasant Prime Minister, M. Stambulisky, was overthrown by a coup d'etat carried out by the Army. All the leading Ministers of the Agrarian Government were seized and imprisoned. The Army evidently acted with the consent of the bourgeoisie, and a bourgeois Coalition Cabinet was formed with Professor Zankoff as Prime Minister. There was very little bloodshed. When we go to press on Thursday the fate of M. Stambulisky is not yet known. At the time of the coup, as the Sofia correspondent of the Times tells us, he was living in his native village. The new Minister of the Interior, in a statement to the Times correspondent, said that the reason for the revolution was that Agrarianism was destroying Bulgaria. The revolution, contrary to certain reports, had nothing in common with the movement of the Macedonian Auto- nomists. It was a purely Bulgarian movement.
