Hughes Thanked

Premier Alexander Zankoff supplied the American Legation in Sofia with "large quantities of documentary evidence of Russian Soviet activities in Bulgaria."

Said the Premier to newspaper correspondents: "I heartily sympathize with Mr. Hughes' resentment of Soviet interference, or attempted interference, with the present form of government of your great country [TIME, Dec. 31, Jan. 7]. We appreciate his refusal to treat with the Soviets so long as this interference continues.

"We also in Bulgaria are the victims of Bolshevik enterprises exerted under orders from Moscow. It is amazing that this third internationale, as Mr. Hughes points out, should employ in great, rich, powerful America the same impudent methods which it employs in weak defenseless Bulgaria. Mr. Hughes' denunciation of Soviet methods deserves the gratitude of Bulgaria."