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Show i , STORY OF NAPOLEON REVIVED. Assertion Af-iln Made That He Ordered Or-dered Sick Soldiers Poisoned. I A grim stoiy of Napoleon Is told I by Christian Waas In a Frankfort rc- view under the title of "Napoleon at I Jaffa." A grrat number of the sol-I sol-I dlers were dawn with the plague, nnd one day ttonaparte sent for his chief I surgeon, l.arey "If I ive you' he I said to him, "I should our 1 1 i"tie patients out of their im . It would savo Iheiti f- n havlui! recourse to opium to sootl then " 'Hut iny duty lis to make Hum live." replied I ar-toy. ar-toy. Honaimte then lovrn'cl tho grim truth. Ha nnd his staff were reduced re-duced to trailing on foo because the horses were all being used for the transportation of the sick lie must, theiefore, either ahandou the plague-stricken plague-stricken to the cruelty of the enemy or get rid of them Mr. Waas maintains main-tains that the order was can led out acccordlnglj. There Is an nd, observes ob-serves tho Journal den Dbn s to tho Illusion of the famous rp en In the I-ouvro of "llnnnpnrtp Malting the Phtfjiie-Strlcl.rn Solilb rs at Jaffa" |