THE EMPEROR AND COL. WELLESLEY.
The. following is extracted from a letter to the Repullique Francaise from a correspondent at Tirnova:—The Emperor continues to visit the ambulances and the wounded. A few days ago he visited in company with Colonel Wellesley, the English military attache, two poor Bulgarians who were in a dying state. The oue had received a bullet in the head which, had found an exit in his breast; the other had his head split open in the form of a cross. "Hero is your cross, dog of a Christian," said the Turk as he sabred him. The oause of this double murder was that these two Bulgarians, reported to bo rich, refused to tell the murderers where they had hid their money. The Emperor, taking Colonel Wellesley by the arm and;Bhowirig him the wound in the form of a cross, on the head of the miserable Bulgarian, said to him, " Look, this is the work of your proteges." .
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Colonist, Volume XIX, Issue 2283, 13 September 1877, Page 3
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161THE EMPEROR AND COL. WELLESLEY. Colonist, Volume XIX, Issue 2283, 13 September 1877, Page 3
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