FRATRICIDE

Evening Star, Issue 17637, 16 April 1921, Page 5

FRATRICIDE

CLEMENCEAU IN INDIA. [From Our. London Cohkespondent.] February 24. Monsieur Clemenccau is on his way back from India to Europe, and, in spite of the number of his illnesses —fourteen, as he said himself to a friend—and as many as President Wilson had points, ho is coming back in health and vigor. During his visit to India ho stayed with the Maharajah of Bikaner, who was the chief Indian delegate at the Peace Conference, and whose retinue of squatting servants used to frighten latecomers returning to their quarters at the Hotel Majestic, and also with the Maharajah of Kurputalah, who loves to bo considered the most Parisian of Maharajahs, and has. :n fact, paid Franco the compliment of imitating it in India to a fantastic extent. While M. Clemenccau was staying with the Maharajah of Bikaner he shot two tigers, which is really a kind of fratricide! When ho was with the other Maharajah he stayed in a palace which was designed to bo an exact replica of ATrsailles, in defiance of the Indian climate and every other sort of appropriateness. ’ What M. Clemenccau, who likes to produce a Buddhist atmosphere in Paris, thought about this transference of eighteenth-century Franco into'the country of his dreams could only bo imagined.