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WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 4TH,
HOME RULE FOR MALTA.
DRAFT CONSTITUTION.
MALTA, June 19th,
1930.
THEATRE UN ROYAL, MR. T. DANIEL FRAWLEY
PRESENTS THE
FRAWLEY
COMPANY
In Repertoire of the Latest London and New York Successes.
two to forty members to deal with local TONIGHT
small affairs. There will also be a nominated Council for Imperial affairs and a Privy Council which may discuss Im perial and mixed interests and the widest matters of interest, both locally and im
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TO-NIGHT WISE FOOLS"
(ar J. D'ARCY MORELL.].
At a meeting of the Council of Govern. PARIS, June 1st. The heats of men in khaki have long ment this morning Lord Planer read. despatches from the Secretary of State since vanished from the Boulevards, except
evering the draft instruments for the now! for tray Rritish or American soldier wending his way, stieg in hand, through Constitution, which draft instruments were laid on the Council table. The despatches the teeting crowds of Nes-Parisiäns_ang strangers.Your true Parisian, of Paris were lengthy, and covered many points. rienne.
is easily distinguished from the There will be a Senate of sixteen members Fret. The nave munters along the ice and a Legislativa membly of from thirty.
lined areque and glances knowingly at things worth noting, but without haste. The real Haneuris not dead. You can still we this "artiste" in the art of living and of doing nothing avec mesure," who vet can give the appearance of doing some thing even in his danerio." The bore
Parisienne of today with perially Generally, the now Constitution THURSDAY, walk, even in a crowd. You, caz pick ber
smodelled on that granted to the Trans- ous by her dress. She wears ber toilette raal in 1908. and will confer on Malta a with car. An assuranes contrasts in her degreesof self-Government equal to that case with the bewildered flurry of strand-njoyed by Australia ed provincials during and since the war. The Council Chamber was packed, there The luckless emigrants from the devastated
a full attendance of members, and the hbishop regions who fled here during the years of
and Dr. Sciberras occupied anguish were housed heaven knows how and where. Continually I have seen the special places. Every sent was filled and available standing-room was crowded industrious countryfolk wandering from when Lord Plumer entered precisely as the house to house in Paris and suburbs to Boondat gun Bred. Everyon, present fol. discover a shelter wherein they can lay towed the reading of the despatches with their heads; with parcels and handbags keen attention, and several times inter- they trudge wearily trying to find the rapted to applaud. Lord Plumer announced unfadable A man who quitted Paris for that the Secretary of State desired to have his ruined village soon returned. No local opinion on the draft Constitution
THE PEDRO An earthquake had and was prepared to receive suggestioni restige remained passed that way. His home and his and amendments, which did not contravene village had vanished, At last he came the spirit of the draft.. His Lordship is He knelt therefore inviting the lending citizens to upon a statnette in bronze. anong the growing reeds, the rank grass.submit their views within the next two and fragments of masonry. His eyes wore diminued he told me. The statuettes belong, ed to his wife, who died from wart and that statuette was all that sprained to him, That man is a head butcher in one of the Paris eoperative stores.
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Generally, the impression seemsa "to be that the new Constitution will prove even better than was expected or hoped. At the conclusion of the proceedings Lord Plumer received an ovation from the crowded Counts Soup, maintained by the
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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS PARLIAMENT.
Madame, the refugees would say toil Chamber and another from the waiting
crowd outside as he left the Palace. the concierge of buildings let in lodgings Excellency leaves Malta this evening on have you just one ropin to let?"No, short leave of absence.-Daily Telegraph. nothing." was the usual reply. More than a million of these refugee fled hither from the stricken region, and only
n mall *o far. portion have returned there
to ther Paris, the inviolate, rwa earthly paradise, and also to the rustic youth of the rest of France that has been Spared from invasion. The glamour, the amusements, the high wages of the bril Jung metropolis exete the angination of provincials, or is not Paris La tête et le cour de la France For years they bave deerted the villages and helds" kay ing the cld folks and Lired labour to till the xo! When in the early days of the war the German armies sorged onwards to the enpital with seemingly resistless might all inhabitants had taken wing except those unable to leave or retained by duty, often strulled in those days of dorht along the empty streets, and Commander-in-Chief and voice the grieval bouhvard in the impressive silence that opprette with sense of solution
from tack of news coming from the out- wide world.
COPENHAGEN, June 13th, A novel institution has been founded in Germany by the edict of the President in the shape of a military chamber to give professional representation to members of the arany. This has been done because the Defence Minister is a civilian, and has not the same knowledge of soldiers' needs and wish as an army ma-so-that-ke-is-com garded with suspicion. The purpose of the' chamber will be to provide a permanent connection between the Central Administra tion and the troops. It will report, to the anees and wishes of various units. numbers will, total sixty-nine, including fourteen.odicers, and all to be cleeted curly in July by a secret ballot, in each esse by those of their own rank. This soldiers'
·
Parliament will meet in Berlin whenever the necessity arises. It is hoped by this novation not only to maintain confidence in the army leaders, but to restore good re- lations with the civilian population. Ta the same way, a naval chamber will be constituted.
as these days.
Its
Para alust as empty whit the tá abrruik German armies ngain cried through the defence late in the warmcun tans of luggage were piled up in the station to follow, if possible, the million Rad quarter who again sight relage far from the scene of action. But a con- stunt "stream of homeless people came to Paris in eroded trains and on foot or country carts; one old woman was wheeled towards Paris on a barrow out of the danger zone. They cupidores Paris a on account of tar high price of living. haven after the interno They End just Molière Stormed and protested. But the escaped from. The vid hostelries of "an- "landlord was inexorable. He must pay or cient days are gone or curand to other leave. Bats were as difficult to find then The author of the uses. The time-hongured inscription, "On
Bourgeois Gentilhomane and loge à pied et à cheval," belongs to au-
the other age, like mine host, rubicund und
Medecin "malgré Lui" had to submit to smiling to receive his guests. A story was his fate and pay the supplement of rent told the other day of a young English or be turned into the street." That is, doubt couple of the best society, who came to les, the reason why the famous satirist Paris to spend their honeymoon. Theyrred doctors and turned then into tried the hotels. Of course, there was not ridicule, for example, in his comedy of a room to be had, not even in the garrets: the medicns consultation of the Four Phy. Furnished apartments were not be disicinus of Cardinal Mazarin at Vincennes, covered, and unfurnished still less so, even where all differed from each other in their at any price. There were several man dragkis of the patient's disease- sions, composed of Bats for sale, because!
In the years preceding the war a certain the owners were ruined, having received 31. Cochon earned fat as the tenants' no rent from the tenants since the begin protector when difficulties arose with the ning of the war, under that remarkable houseowner or his cuncierge. He employed law of the moratorium, and being unlikely, a gang of expert furniture removers, who to be paid for an indefinite number of quickly smuggled away the goods years to come. One of these mansions & chattais in vans op handearts under the sold to gae of the new rich." This nose of the dismayed concierge, while his importaat personage was a very modest trained band, kaown all over Paris as the shoemaker before the war, and made his Raffnt de Saint Policarpe, serenaded fortune by manufacturing boots wholesale the indignant landlord with the earsplit- for the army. He wished to get rid of ting charivari of their "rough" "music" va the unpaying tenants, so applied for discordan, instruments such as pans, concierge to take charge of the property ketties, and bullocks! horas. No one wishes The young English cople went to see the to be removed now because few realthy par profiteer to ask for this sitia the fashion of paying rent, and lunchords tion, and the latter, on seeing the refer- do not care to let their premises. More. ences, way proud to have at his service over, M. Cochou, mobilised during the people of such good standing, Indeed, war was court-martialled for desertion, they are said to have proved A great and sent to prison. The landlords are
access: the tenants are so fond of their revenged. youthful janitors that they mean to remain In the course of the next few weeks an and to pay
army of American citizens will land in HUGE KIBE IN HÆNTS.
France, this time not with all the stern There is a refuge somewhere about the array of war, but peacefully bent on hav Rue Montmartre where
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but rejoiced. refuges. It is to be hoped that the thou Where shall we lodge these welcome
questa sands of visitors coming to Paris will not who will arrive with pockets full of be driven to seek shelter on these hard dollars! The wily caterers well know that but hospitable benches. A strange Pari accommodation will grow to fantastic pro siau feature has since the war been the portions through competition. Neverthe always crowded theatres and cinemas, less, they have approached M. Borrel, crammed nog with paper, but with paying formerly president of the group of tourism of pectators. People say that the world in the Chamber, and now. Secretary is impoverished by the war; one would not State, to plead their cause before the think so in Paris so far as pleasurescek great rush begins. The millionaires will ing is concerned, Â family
from
de probably find quarters, for kings, even of vastatel Boisson told me that they went steel and petrol, must be treated regally.
M. constantly to the playhouse in order not at royal prices,. But the others? to brood aver their woes and losses in un Barrel will try to touch the heart of his comfortable lodgings. Rents since the war, colleagues, especially M. Thoumyre, For have risen by leaps and bounds. In some the various Government junctiocaries still instances rents that stood at 1200 yearly occupy several of the grand hotels for ad have gone up to 4.000 and 5.000 and ministrative purposes. These might be more. At the time of Molière deas living vacated, to receive some of the Americans. and scarcity of lodging were also the cause They must not be left to wander homelessly of disproportionate rents, Molière be in the City of Light." The cafés and in tween his journey's to the South of France restaurants will remain open until one reated a small apartment in a doctor's the morning coal will help to light up house, One day Escolapius told the fam brilliantly-La Ville Lumiere, bo de hon ous playwright that he was compelled to our to visitors, though nono, in available add considerably, to the rent of the fint for humble homes, oven to cook the dinner.
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