The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-18
RI0T0US SCENES IN PARIS
GREAT AN1I-DRYFUS AND AN1f.
 SEMITE MEETING.

Anarchists and Students Clash in Frec
 Fights-Desperate Struggles for Flags
 Students Flourish Tri-CoIor and Are
 Charged by Troops.
 Paris, Jan. TIA great anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semite meeting tonight at the Tivoli Vauxhall produced extraor- dinary scenes. The neighborhood was paraded by the police mounted and on foot and the rapidly growing crowd in- creased the excitement. At g o'clock on the opening of the meeting the hall was seething sea of humanity, crowding every part and gesticulating, shouted "Vive pArmee' and .Vive la Reyolu- tion Sociale." The members of the an- ti-Semite committee displayed ban sners. On M. Guerin, the president, pro- posing that the honorary presidency be conferred upon M. Rochefort and M. Drumont, a great uproar ensued, the anarchists trying to wrench the ban ners from the anti-Semites. Scufles took place in which two of the off, cials were injured.
 M Thiebaud delivered an address de- nouncing the Jews and urging the meeting to support the government Tumults and fights for the banners con- tinued with shoutings, whistling and singing of the Marseillaise and the Car magnole, whle M. Thiebaud proceeded with violent speech, declaring that the Dreyfus resolution was the commences ment of a social revolution by a band of scroundrels desiring to overthrow ev- erything in order to raise a traitor.' The scene now became one of extrema disorder. The anarchists removed the iron staircase giving access to the tri- bune so that the committee was unable to descend. Free fights began around the platform. Finally the students chased the anarchists out of the hall. The organizers of the meeting then seized the flags decorating the hall and arranged a rendezvous at the Military club. crying Vive pArnee."
 The hall was partially emptied, but soon the anarchists returned, and breaking open the doors, began further fighting. It is alleged that several were injured Finally the students were vanquished and the anarchists were masters of the situation. The meeting broke up and the anarchists replaced the ladder and invaded the tribune, led by M. Courtois, fourishing a red flag and all shouting "Conspequez Roche fort, (Spit upon Rochefort) and Long live Zola." The disturbances continued the anarchists declaiming 1. from the tribune against the army and, acclaiming Dreyfus. Some of the in jured people were carried out with their faces covered with blood.
 The interest was now transferred tol the streets where the police had been re-enforced by the republican guards At 10 o'clock this evening large bodies of students hourishing the tri-color proceeded in the direction of the militia ry club in the Avenue de TOpera. The troops cleared the Place de la Repub-3 lique and charged the bodies of Stu-| dents. A large force is protecting the the military club. By midnight those who had been arrested were released and quiet had been restored. There were only trifiing manifestations elsewhere. At this hour (midnighD M. Blanc, the prefect of police has personally taken the direction of the men who are pro- tecting the military club through fear of further trouble.
 Several students were arrested. The demonstrators then proceeded, shout ing "Conspiuez Consola" to the officers of the Temps, the Aurore and the Li- bre Parole, but the police again dis persed them. Near midnight five huns dred students, led by M. Millevoye, re- assembled at the military club. but they met with the same fate. In the melee some were wounded and others arrested Ultimately M. Millevoye ob- tained permission of the police to march before the club crying "vive PArmee." Telegrams from numerous provincial towns report student mani festations at Marseilles, the windows of shops having been broken. The crowd rescued those who were arrested.