N. ROSTAND’S PLAY

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 6

N. ROSTAND’S PLAY

PUBLIC -RENTS' J^SULT'TO 1 ' I', . ' ■ .« "'A * * , ,' * . .PARIS, Sept. 21. AH&iciM? A ijfer»v ** pU^> ‘•‘Napoleon... . groused strong criticisJiij.:d4'jhi tpitlie. sifiggMitiu S&ftF NApqlepxi >tli,o Priqcq .Imperial,. ;\v%>,.-wijts- Rilled*. whye;* wit’n * ti«sjsj>j§li- Aim i 1879, ,w£jj by Ilrijjslp officer jii . \yhcb. : fo rspok him when Hip natives-.attacjvod.. The. play gests to a plot;',thjiwh--ih« out.q^.jiliei

Why. s \ { ; p, : ; 1 ..... .t; ( ■- sympathy M‘ W hrst ; night" audience \vjth anti-Engljsli tirades, the public? i? .Mcompig and is the play, as it is a gratuitous insult ! to England. There was a demonstration against as necessitated police intervention restore order.; '/ ■ _ . .

The Prince Imperiaiy h 11 ]? ? • soiv of the Emperor Napoleon lII* .and the Edgenie. % He, .went> te Engl and t with |is mother jdftifmg iht Ftanco-Prpas.iam, war and after the fall oN thep I&ntpjre] -and the, death pf. ' ■his father became Pretender to the th rdM.'dP!3?rh:!TCsv: : €’t rr !* r 0 desire - wh«-~ from the British War Office for him 1 to join M raying in" 20M ! mother #jitTpiisi also ffiaVmilitary experience would be helpful' inltegpßng the 'French thnnie fof 'itlie Ronaphi'tes. He was made sort of •aide-de-camp in the arm*) and’ the’ British' comi)mnd|%^^j|o : put him in a danger as possible, but their iustruc'tions were 'disregarded and he-yeas, allowed"’to go out with a rCC'OTiiioitrinP exfedi’tmiiy" tfie*’Others" of' the' party were Lieutenant' Garey. two n.e.o. s. six troopers and’a Zulu' guide. -According to a military historian,' ; Col-. ; oW&W* TOttoii;‘' the* ’ Prince.■ though lie was not fit for the .bask,wasffut ip cjyqrge-; of ithe ; ' .opCyniioni- ■; On itherPrinCje’i iristnjLPtioVjs- the. party stayed, at a deserted, .kraal - and cqofc-: ed a' meal,' taking few precaution* j against ’surprise. Just as they err aj,ppt to. werb I'lie j hq||e§- 'bolted 1 was iV seems' tbtfi' Carey' rode ' two hundred yards without looking back. * -A . f -eprpbral, saw-r the.- Br i nee,, on fdot, Seßg”phrsHed ; " by-ZVfhis; • birt- : did not report this till afterwards. "When the survivOrb. med up t|€ that the jhiifce Was dead, lqd his melt a way. What exactly happened to the Prince known", hut the generally accepteaHstiiry 'isnhat he' ' tried ;tr hipg bTOke • away:; H.is • body was ;:_re- . cdvpi ; ed ahci . taVeh' to .England. Ali bis wqifnds-were ih front and his revolver was empty. .. Carey was spntenped mifibehavionr "in the held; but thq Eiupress Eugenie appealed tp" Qpee'rf;CVic-; bjjn Qi’Mp. :• intervened. The; sentence ..was, remit-, ted and Carey was tpJ)#Cbsßieted, dht : ' ;hlt;,;tfe prepeedinga wCpe |ps|ied and he - rejoined his regiment, to die of fever within a coup]e of years. The the, . Prince’s, ddjiitli. lehdr -sqjtfe'7 cpldiiE' to'.Nr. ’ Rqstand’s assertion that the. .English offiJhp&pfa' w f|ihaavhiways heep" accepted as the uncertain status the Prince and the plundering pf the officer, who, allowed hini tp go- with such a small force on a task for which lawns'---hot fitted;' Carey : was . ibtahie.d • for allowing the prince to stop at such a dan herons place as the kraal, "but his excuse was that the Prince was the Prince and he could not press ■’ &. ■■i * <-.»