THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.
Rostand’s Play. ITS INSINUATIONS AGAINST ENGLAND. (Received ►Septemfier 23 at 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, September 21. M. Maurice Rostand’s new play ” Napoleon the Fourth,” has aroused strong criticism, owing to its suggestion thnt the Emperor Napoleon the Third’s and the Empress Eugenie’s son the Prince Imperial, who was killed while serving with the British army in the war in Zululand, in the year 1879. was really assassinated by the British officers forsaking him when the natives attacked him. The play also suggests that Queen Victoria was privy to the plot to piit the Prince imperial out of the way. Despite the sympathy of a first-night audience with anti-English tirades the Paris public is becoming irritated, and is demanding the withdrawal of the play, as it is a gratuitous insult to England. There was a demonstration against the play last night, such as necessitated police intervention to restore order.
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Grey River Argus, 24 September 1928, Page 5
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