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Motors in Pondicherry.
An în mes inga'go of the times
MME. BERNHARDT IN DESPAIR.
| Stage-Fright Attack at Her,First Lecture.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1914.
WHITE WOLF'S. CRIMES.
Girls Tied To Horses.
in the ata ishment in Pondi- Mme. Sarah Berohardt's first cherry of a ur service, runing lecture was a brilliant success, in
Letters from Kaangehow and from the railway terminus. This spite of the stage-light from Loshan, dated respectively Febru- small pity, the remnant of the which she insisted she was sufferary 11 and February 13 again once mighty French Empire in ing. When she appeared on the assert that many troopa deserted Indis, has, hitherto, been sudly platform at the Universite Annale, to the brigands in recent engage- behind the times in the matter of freshly decorated with se ribbon menta.
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locomotion, says the Railway of the Legion of Flonour, she, The letter from Kuongchow News. No quicker means have sook into a chair with a cespair-eage that the brigands continus: been available than the archaic ing "Mon Den!" But the at of to plunder the rich towns on the bullock-cart and the "push-push.""trac" did not last, and the golden Andui-Hoaan border. The latter However, Pondicherry, like most voice soon held the bearers pell-gives the following account of the recent victory and defeat other parts of India, is nowhound.
"My debut and how I was re- White Wolf. "The brigands making up for lost time. English and French Mechanics. [ceived at the Conservatoire"" was met a detachment of soldiers
Are the French bettermecbanies the subiect. Speaking of horself north-east
of Shang-chong. than the English? asken corres-in the third person-aho deoared They defeated some and con- pondent of the Autocar. The it made her feel less nervousverted the rest to their cause. results of the 1912 and 1913 Mma, Bernhardt told how when The brigands then went weat Grand Prix and other Continental at the convent school near Ver-auti! they were stopped by the mcos seem to answer it in the enilles the girls were getting up a soldiers, who were victorions allirmative, and yet when the play to bo noted before Mgr. although very few of the original French products are compared Sibour Archbishop of Paris, she White Wolf band were killed. with the finor products of the wan passer over to ber immense The briganda forced a large num- British manufacturers wo appear grief. The play won Tobias ber of local robbers and coolies easily to be equal if not superior | Recovering Ilis Sight,' to our French brethren. But if we are successfully to uphold our country in this respect against all competitors we must have a more specified manner of training and more encouragement for appren- tices generally.
The Chance of Her Life. At the final rehearsal the pretty, but stupid, girl who was eating the part of the angel Rapheal was struck dumb with stage fright, and little Sarah, who know evory line of the play by heart, had the chance of her life. She replaced the pretty but stopid girl and scored bar first success.
who joined them to bear the brant of the fire. Of this living ram part some hundreds were killed.
"The Chinese report that the brigands took a number of girls and fixed tins with burning paraf. fio to thro, tied them to horses and drove them towards the troops,, boping to create a panic among the latter. Many of the girls were shot or burned to death."
Mgr. Stbour was so delighted
Over 20,000 troops are attack- that he promisel he would come ing White Wolf from the Honaa himeslf and baptise little Sarab side alone. It is believed that be
into the Roman Catholic Chuchi waiting for an opportunity to
her father was a Catholic and occupe westward. her mother a Jewess-but before Major Robertson. British
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Sarah Bernhardt seriously thought of taking the veil, but the religious crisis of her life pass- ed." One day the Duc de Morny, who was a friend of the family, said, “You ought to send that child to the Conservatire." "She
of the world, according to the too skinny over to make an official figarea just published.ctress," replied Sarah'a god- This rank is assigned on the basis futber.
of vessels completed and vessels Nevertheless, when she was under constraction. Great Britain pourly fifteen Sarth Beralardt rauks first with a total tonusge of bogan to prepare for the entrance 2,052,711, Germany has 944,338 examination to the Conservatoire. tora, the United States, 700,002, France 845.891, Japan 407,190, Russia 283,081 Italy 250,130, and. Austris 108,351. These figures show Great Britain with more tonnage than Germany and the United States combined, while the United States is harder pushed by France than it is pressing Germany. In the amount of appropriations the United States standa secoul only to Great Britain for 1013.
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The chairman of the Board inner, met abominable langu Examiners was Auber, the age is used by all ranke." composed, then director of the Speaking with some knowledge Conservatoire. When Sarah's of the world and of the Army, we turn came to recite the part cho hail can honestly prepared it was discovered that she have never get come across had omitted to bring with her athe regiment in which the partner to give her the cuefficere copied the men, or Several of the examinere wanted in which the language of the plough the candiata thera and latter was one bit worse than that thea bat kind M. Auber was in favour of giving her a chance.
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