Foreign News: Note to Bulgaria

The Soviet Foreign Office despatched a stiff note to the Bulgarian Government concerning the expulsion and ill treatment of the Russian Red Cross Mission.

The note Charges that the Bulgarian authorities joined the White Russians living in Bulgaria in instituting a regular system of persecution against the mission. Torture, murder, beatings, imprisonment, confiscation are cited in numerous cases. The Bulgarian Government is accused of conducting a "scandalous campaign " against the mission by insisting (apparently without good cause) that "many documents of an incriminating nature had been in its offices."

Finally, the note...

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