The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-18

Paris. Jan IA great anti-Dreyfus
and anti-Semitic meeting at the Tivoli
Vaux Hall produced extraordinary
scenes. The neighbcrhood was patrolled
by police mounted and on foot and the
rapidly growing crowd increased the
excitement. At o'clock, on the open
ing of the meeting, the hall was a
seething mass of humanity, crowding
every part, gesticulating. shouting
"A bas lola, Vive lie Armie,'' and give
the anti-Semite committee displayed
banners bearing the inscription Death
| to the Jews and wore inscriptions. 1t
was soon seen that the 5000 present
consisted largely Of anarchists and
others bent on opposing the students
On NJ. Guerin, the president, propos-
| ing that the honorary presidency be
| conferred upon NJ. RochefOrt and NJ
Drumont, a great uproar ensued, the
anarchists trying to wrench the ban
ners from the anti-Semites. ScuffleS
took place in which two of the officials
were injured
NJ Thiebaud delivered an address de-
nounclng the Jews and urging the men
to support the government
TUMULTs AND FIGHTS.
Tumults and fights for the banners
continued with shoutings, whistlings
and singing of the Marseilles and the
CarmagnOle, while NJ. ThiebaUd pro-
ceeded in a violent speech declaring
that the Dreyfus scandal was the COM
mencement of a social revolution by a
band of scoundrels desiring TO over
throw everything in order to raise a
traitor
The scene now became a saturnalia
The anarchists removed the iron stair
case giving access to the tribune so
that the committee was unable TO de-
scend. Free fights began around the
flags. Finally the students chased the
anarchists out of the hall. The or
ganiZers of the meeting then seized the
flags decorating. the hall and arranged
a rendezvous at the military club, cry
ing ''Vive I'Arnie.''
ANARCHISTS MASTERS.
The hall partially emptied, but soon
the anarchists returned and. breaking
open the great doors, began further
fighting. 1t 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 NJ CurtoiS, fiOuriShing
a red flag and shouting ~Conspuez
ROchefOrt" (spit upon RccheforD and
Long Live Zola.''
The disturbances continued. the an
archists declaiming from the tribune
against the army and acclaiming Drey-
fus. Some of the injured people were
carried out with their faces covered
with blood
IN THE STREETS
The interest was now transferred to
the streets, where the police had been
reinforced by the republican guards.
At 10 o'clock this evening large bodies
of students, f1ourishing the trieolOr and
shouting '.Vive FArmie,'' proceeded in
the direction of the military club in the
Avenue de rOpera-
The troops cleared the place de Ia p
Republique and charged the bodies of
students. A large force is protecting
the military club.
Several were arrested. The demon
stratOrs then proceeded shouting
"COnsquez ZOla," TO the officers of the
Temps, the Aurore and the Libre pa
role, but the police again dispersed
them. Near midnight 500 students, led
by NJ. Miilevoye. assembled at the
military club but they met with the
same fate. n the melee some We're
wounded and others arrested Ulti-.
mately NJ. Millevoye obtained permis-'
SlOn o. the ponce 10 IldICn DGLuIc the
club crying ''Vive PArmie."
By midnight those who had been ar
rested We're released and quiet had
been restored in the palace de fOpera-
There were only .trifling manifestations
elsewhere.
AT MIDNIGHT.
Later-Midnight: NJ Blanc, the pre-
feet of police. has just personally taken
the direction of the men who were
protecting the military club, through
fear of further trouble.
kilograms from numerous provin-
cial towns report student manifesto
lions at AIarseilles, where the windows
OF Jewish citizens were broken.
At Nantes there have been some at
tacks on shops and the synagogue
The crowd rescued those who were ar.
rested.
PANIC AMONG JEWS.
The events of the past few days are
beginning to produce a feeling of panic
in Jewish circles. Both the business
and private houses of the Rothschilds
and other wealthy Jews are guarded by
special detectives and gendarmes, for
fear lest the crusade produce a sudden
popular outbreak
a heavy fog settled over the city this
afternoon and made it difficult. to as
certain until late exactly what had
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