The Cost

The court martial sitting at Sofia to try persons accused of complicity in the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27, et seq.), sentenced eight men to death:

Marco Friedmann, lawyer, Communist. He knew of, but said he was not connected with, the persons who hatched the bomb plot. Sentence: Public execution.

Georgi Koeff, for harboring Captain Ninkoff (engineer of the outrage, killed while resisting arrest). Public execution.

Peter Zadgorsky, sacristan of Sveti Kral, for accepting a Communist bribe to permit the plotters to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral. Prison execution.

Five others -Petrini, Kossofsky, Grancharoff, Abadjieff, Dimitroff-who are all at large-sentenced in absence. Public execution.

The three condemned men were granted a reprieve of four days in order that they could appeal to the King, who, it was hinted, refused to sign the death warrants; and it was believed that the sentences would be commuted to imprisonment for life.

Meantime, the Pravda, Moscow journal, grew livid over the absence of any protest from the world bourgeoisie :

"The bourgeoisie of humanitarian Europe already have spent all their efforts in crying against the Red Terror, and with smiles on their faces fully endorse the new and ugly sight at Sofia."