Prefect
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It was a false alarm, a simple military promenade, such as the general occasionally ordered since the strike had broken out, at the desire of the
prefect
of Lille.
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the story line was good, the comic dialogue a scream and the older
prefect
girls a delight!!
Up to nine o'clock he dictated dispatches, telegraphing in all directions, to the
prefect
of Lille, to the directors of the Company, warning the authorities and asking for orders.
The
prefect
of Lille had come in haste and the police had tramped all the roads; but in face of the calmness of the strikers,
prefect
and police had decided to go home again.
So when the cavalry and police quietly took the road back to Marchiennes, after contenting themselves with deafening the settlements by the stamping of their horses over the hard earth, the miners jeered at this innocent
prefect
and his soldiers who turned on their heels when things were beginning to get hot.
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