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ERE THERE

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Many

Prefect

emptsgasve been made to

remove M. Chlappe. (he bla name as Kee-app tecture of Polles. Be fered successively Senator, Ambassador, Indo-China and, on

MEN WHO RULE AS ROMANS DID

GOVERNORS OF EMPIRE'S OUTPOSTS

the Pre SIR

been of

previous

occasions, the Residency-General of Morocco,"

WILLIAM PEEL'S

(By Harvey James.)

INTERESTS

The history of mankind tells of history, the Liberai Lord Willings. only one parallel to the British don, appointed by a Labour Prime He has always refused. Ostensibly his reason is that the Empire, but that parallel is so Minister, has carried out a policy wealthy and benevolent Mme close as to be surprising. Over a of government far stronger than Chiappe cannot be parted from her thousand years divide the fall of that of his Conservative predeces- philanthorpic activities on behalf of the Roman Empire from the rise of sor,.

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pollos orphans in Paris Actually ours but the same philosophy of Typically Edwardian in his as- the smiling little Prefect de government endured to bridge the surance, his dignity, his grey frock Car coat, and his polka, which he still ferential to his seniors, no genial to gap. his subordinates, is devoted to his Like Britain, but unlike other dances at 67, he is thoroughly neo- Empires, ancient and modern-Georgian in his love of air travel post.

Chaldea or China, Assyria or Aus- and his "definits views on body-line- tria, whose provinces were all rul-bowling. Popular Dictator

He has definite views on other ed along the same lines from one Since bis famous predecessor, ther two centres-Rome was a mo- things too, for he knows his mind great Prefect Lepine, a gruff old nic of systems of government in- and does not hesitate to express It. man who prowled the streets of the to whose pattern were woven ele-His face, with its humorous eyes city at night alone and disguisedments as diverse as the divine and large grey moustache, is as like the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid, monarchy of Egypt and the free full of character as it is of kind- ness, Activity and ill-health have Paris has had no more popular die democracy of Athens. tators than M. Chlappe."

Like the Commonwealths and Co-left only a slender and a fragile He closed down vice haunts in lonies of Britain, the Federations body to house a personality that is Montmartre sllenced traffic noises and Provinces of Rome could be so vigorous and so powerful.

But after midnight, Instituted one-way divided into many groups.

The Gril Servant Type There is another type of Colonial traffic and, one-side parking, safety both Rome and Britain hold one erossings for pedestrians, and feature in common with other Em: Governor, the Civil Servant, un- coloured-light signals at cross-roads pires--their dependence on the known to Rome, whose Empire But his greatest exploit was, the character of individual Governors. chiefly differed from our own by peaceful arrest of M. Lean Daudet, Some Roman provinces belonged the absence of a Civil Service, the Royalist leader, who had barri to the Senate, some to the Emper- though, since similar circumstan- caded himself in the offices of the or. The former were governed by ces breed similar traits, there "Action Francaise" and defied the Proconsuls, the latter by Legates. were Governors-Pilate, for in- police to take him dead or alive.

The Imperial Provinces were more stance-approximating to our Co- efficiently run than the senatorial. lonial Office type. of late. We have the "pyjama girl," and we have the

His Saccessor

Sir Edward Denham represents They had not inherited the cor girl who wears "slacks." The

The new Prefect, M. Bonnefoy-rupt Republican tradition which it to-day in British Guiana: Ever plain fact is that the sports-girl, Sibour, has been chosen to succeed often made the latter the sport of since, he went down. from Oxford his life has been spent in the Co- Hong Kong, Saturday, March 10, 1934 as we call her, is helping to re M. Chiappe because he possesses party polítics.

volutionise our ideas on dress.similar qualities of courage, firm- Governors like Verres, or that lonies, a life of constant selfless-, We have advanced a long way Iness, and good humour.

friend of Catullus who complained ness, He is known for such gen- A Matter Of Dress.

since the days of Isabella of Spain. Some months ago, as Prefect of that his governorship had yielded erous self-sacrifices as that which "I have come to "measure the the Seine-et-Oies Department, he, no profit beyond. four footmen, his relief of leprosy involved. Sir William Peel, who The Nazis have had a setback. Royal legs for a new pair of had to deal with an embarrassing, were the creatures of political in- Not content with regulating silk stockings," said the Court strike of bargees on the River Oise. terest. On the other hand, men Governor of Hong Kong, has an in- "Limbs, sir, Many of the water approaches to like Pliny, tolerant and interested, tense interest in the religions and everything else in Hitler's Ger-stocking-maker: many, they attempted to regu-limba!" said the indignant cham- Paris were blocked by idle barges, who governed Bithynia, the philo curtoms of the Far East, of which women's dress. For this berlain. Some months ago, at a A violent collision between the sophic Gallie who ruled Corinth, his first-hand experiences go back Methodist Conference in London, truculent bargecs and the police Marcus Otho, the Legate of Lust-to 1897, when he went out to purpose an organisation Was

tania, so scrupulous in his conduct Malay, created under the presidency of the Rev. Luke Wiseman ventur-

Just one year his junior In the M. Bonnefoy-Sibour, with the aid and his attire, or the studious Frau Goebbels, wife of the Minised to question the propriety of ter for Propaganda, but almost modern developments in women's of fire brigades and a detachment of Agricola, to whom Britain owed Service in Sir. Alexander Bansferi immediately madame resigned, attire at the seaside, the Spa marines, disentangled the barges her peace and prosperity, were Slater, Caffin-General of Jamaica, It was proposed that the "women and even on the high road; and and freed the river for navigation, promoted upon their record and whose fame began in the Cam of the Labour front should his criticism drew a reply from

The strike ended with expressions allowed an independence mora bridge Mathematical School and“ comparable with that of a Warren has gone on steadily over since. He wear a special uniform, but the Canon Richard Brook, vicar of of good will from all sides.

Hastings or a Milner than with started in the Ceylon Bervice. To- idea had to be abandoned as be- Doncaster. Present-day fashions, ing unsuited to the female char-sald Canon Brook, were "essen-

those to-day under the more rigid day his task in the West Indies is control of the Colonial Office. simplified by his generous-at-^- acter, and in the end all that inlly sensible, healthy,

[titude to colour questions and one happened was that the women good to look upon," though there

Parallels Of Pliny

livened by his venturesome tours were "urged to wear after work, were alwaye silly, vulgar people

Such a man as Pliny, for, In-round the islands in a sailing boat. or at the cinema or the theatre, who carried fashion to excess

Soldiers are less frequently ap a dark coat, blue, velveteen simply to call attention to them-case for his client, and the client stance, recalls Lord Bessborough,

blouse" selves. Even Mussolini, if we was called upon to pay his fees, our Governor-General of Canada. pointed to governorships in Britaire Jacket, and white Fashions may change, but the fare not mistaken, made a valiant "How much do I owe you?" he Both tolerant · country gentlemen than they were in Rome, which was

do asked,

of wide views, they would", flødļoften shaken by the vigour, of a love of adornment is as strong entry into the field, but we

not think his valour carried him "Your father and I were old much in common! In fact, Canada Pompey or a Cesar, or compra- in women to-day as in the days much further than that of the friends," said the solicitor. "Let's of 1934 and its problems differ mised by the military mind ́of of Cleopatra or the Queen of

vastly more from Pilny's Bithynia Quintilius Varus, Sheba. Not very long ago some Nazi Minister for Propaganda, say £50","

than Lord Bessborough does from excavations on the outskirts of Much more successful as a pro-"Well," said the client, Frankfort in this very Ger-pagandist is Mr. Bernard Shaw, handed over the money. "I'm glad Pliny himself. many over which Hitler now In an address in London some you didn't know my grandfather." rules-led to the discovery of a month ago, he remarked that of the nineteenth finely-carved metal chest itted the woman

A kilted Highlander, playing the with toilet requisites, nail scis-century was a masterpiece of

sex-appeal," but women had agpipes, paraded up and down sors, and other articles such as are to be found on any modern since discarded much of their the street · alongside a theatre in Stansted Park) to spur him, onl dressing table; and an analysis of dress, and sex-appeal had prac-queue,

to develop every side of the social "Why do they always walk up life of the Dominion over which two small brown and white sticks tically vanished. If fashions revealed that they were nothing were, to "bring back clothes," he and down when they're playing he has travelled so many thousands o less than "lip-stick, with in- added, then sex appeal would asked a man on a passing bus.

Cos Its harder to it 'em that gredients practically identical come again.

way!"- sild the conductor..

Jate

and

with those of the present age. Wild Animal Reserves.

To lay down regulations in re-

gand to such aids to beauty"

seemed inevitable.

Your Daily Smile.

One Consolation The solleitor had conducted a

In Flight

No Class

tion.

would be a hopeless task, for Were it not for reservations My dean man logo

as he

ginald

He is carefully dressed, wears a carnation with great grace, and has a hundred diverse interests, from golf to drama (he used to have a private theatre at his home

(Continued on Page-11).

VAST IRRIGATION SCHEME.

Portuguese Cabinet Votes £1,000,000.

Lourenco Marques, £1,000,000 is to be spent on xm

of mile,

of the same type is Lord Bledle. Irrigation scheme in the Limpong loe, solemn-looking with waves of Valley and the extension of the

railway from silver grey hair and a. trim motis- tache, For two centuries his fam-

Tampopo, accor

munique the Portugu

ily has lived in Gloucestershire have been approved by |milady's - boudoir, la, a sacred and animal parks, declares E. elegant lady of

whence he journeyed via Eton, Oz guese Cabinet in Li place; immune from the visits of G. Boulanger Director of the meanour to the schoo

ford, the Bar, and the Conservative According to Government and municipal in- British Zoological Society, "the gates of the high

Party to public life and the Gover spectors. So also in matters of Age of Mammals would be hur--Inform

nor-Generalship of New Zealand of Finance and Colun

discussing ways dress. Woman is a law unto her rying to its close." In Africa Cornelly Ma

But he has sever lost his passion- ate love of the countryside, for The Governme the raising of su self in these things, The only the "sportsman" has already ex that his mother has arrive

"Bure, mam" returned, the boy, since the days of Turnip Town dictator she will pay any atten- terminated the quagga. Just in tion to is the dictator of fashions, time the white rhinoceros, has then, facing the playing fields, he shend and Arthur Young there has project 13 A Patou, a Poiret, a Schiaparelli, been saved. It is now protected yelled, Sulfty, the old girl's blown been no more expert, agriculturiat as will find a ready listener in her, in Zululand and in a small area in, but not a Hitler or a Goebbels, on the western bank of the Nile In her dress she expresses her north of Lake Albert Nyanza self; and this is true, of woman The Indian rhinoceros is rigidly aszan: individual and of woman protected in Nepal, Assam, and

whole "Woman is not long Siam- one too

high

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