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Tur. following account of the incredible ill-treatment to which Piinco Alexander was Objected, in given od the authority of Prince Louie of BatUnbsrg The army look a much greater part in the r;uj il'elut then hat hitherto been known. The 1st Regiment, whose duty it win to guard the Prince, acted in concert with tho Knatcndje battalion and secretly inarched off. At two o'clock one of the Palace guards ruthtd into llio Prince's be«f• room, nnd thruat a rovolvor into hit hand, whispering * Save yourself.* The Prince haaUmod down the stair landing to the winter gnrdon, hut on the ataircase he was mot by two soldiers witli levelled bayonets. Me hurried back to his bedroom, and found there a largo number of officers, who cov«lt;k! him with their revolvers. One of them tore n sheet uf paper from a note book nnd wrote some illegible words thereon. Ths other* forced tho Priuco to a tablo and laid tho sheet beside him crying 'Sign !' Closely pressed from all sides, and with tnnre than twenty revolvers pointed at his bead, the I'nnce wrote under the illegible scrawl, 'Alexander, Mod guard Bulgaria.'
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Toowoomba Darling Downs Gazette

Toowoomba, Queensland, AU

Wed, Oct 20, 1886

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