The news that there are fifty European prisoners in the Sou 'an revives a very elender hope that O'Donovan, the famous traveller, soldVr, aod war correspondent, may be alive. If so, bis life will be an additional illustration of the faci that truth isstraogor than fiction. Sdmond O'Donovan, s'rved through the bianco- German war nn the Fnnch side, then be joined the Republican army in what is known as the Carlist War. After that he became a war correspondent, end saw a good deal of fighting in the Rubs^-Turkish war. Subsequent 1/ he drifted about Europe and Africa for awnile, until be went to Khiva, where he was elected a chief ; then he returned to England, and went with Hicks Pacha for the Daily News.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 23, 25 March 1892, Page 23
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