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Last week, King Alfonso left Madrid, journeyed to Barcelona. En route, a large bomb, intended to blow up the royal train, was found on the railway tracks...
...Barcelona, the King went to preside at a meeting held in the Town Hall. In the entrance was discovered another bomb...
...Bolshevik intrigues, the Government applied to (and received permission from) the Council of Ambassadors for an increase of 3,000 men; but, owing to the opposition of Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania, the increase was not permitted until Apr. 10 of this year. Shortly after occurred the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27 et seq.). Bulgaria petitioned the Council for more troops, received permission to raise another 7,000 and maintain them during the pleasure of the Council...
King Boris, who does not believe in capital punishment, who had heretofore never approved a death sentence in his life, decided last week that the recent bomb outrage in the Sveti Krai Cathedral (TIME, Apr. 21 et seq.) merited the supreme sentence, signed three death warrants. At 8 o'clock in the morning, while low, gray clouds were chased lazily by a warm breeze, 30,000 people assembled in a meadow under Mount Vitosna on the outskirts of Sofia. Before them were three white gibbets, surrounded by a strong force of soldiers...
Marco Friedmann, lawyer, Communist. He knew of, but said he was not connected with, the persons who hatched the bomb plot. Sentence: Public execution...