The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-18
PARIS STIRRED.
Familiar Scenes Renewed in the
City's Streets.
Riots Participated in by An
archiStS and Students.
DREYFUS THE EXCUSE
For DisOrderIy Behavior on
Part of RevOIutiOnists.
Police and Military Massed to
Preserve Order.

Paris, Jan. 1S.-A great anti-Dreyfus
and ani-Semite meeting last night at
the TivoH Vaux hall produced extra
ordinary scenes.
The neighborhOOd was paraded by po-
lice, mounted and on foot, and the rap
idly growing crowd increased the ex-
element. At o'clock on the opening
of the meeting the hall was a seething
sea of humanity, crowding every part,
gesticulating, shouting "A bas Zola,"
''Vive la armie," and ''Vive la revoIu-
tiOn sociale.'
The members of the anti-Semite com
nittee displayed banners bearing the
inscription, Death to the Jews" and
other inscriptions.
1t was soon seen that the 5000 pres
ent consisted largely of anarchists and
others bent on opposing the students.
ON M Guerin, the president, propOs-
ing that the honorary presidency be
conferred upon NJ. Rochefort and M
DrumOnt, a great uprOar enSued, the
anarchists trying to wrench the ban
ners from the anti-Semites. Scuffies
took place in which two officials were
injured.
NJ. Thiebaud delivered an address de-
nouncing the Jews and urging the
meeting to support the government.
TumultS and fights for the banners
continued, with shouting, whistling and
singing of "Marseillaise'' and the Car
magnOle,' while NJ. Thiebaud proceeded
in a violent speech, declaring that the
Dreyfus scandal was the commence
ment of a social revolution by "band
of scOundrels desiring to overthrow ev-
erything 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.
Z HfTo E7n -N1r oh
archists out of the hall. The organic
ers of the meeting then seized the flags
decorating the hall and arranged a rem
devious al the Military club, crying,
''Vive Parmie'
The hall partially emptied. but soon
the anarchists returned, and breaking
open the great doors began further
fighting. 1t is said several were inJur-
ed. Finally the students were van
Quished, and the anarchists were mas
ters of the situation. The meeting
broke up and the anarchists replaced
the ladder and invaded the tribune, led
by NJ. Curtoise, fiOurishing red flag,
and all shouting "COnSpuez ROchefOrt'
C'Spit upon ROchefort') and Long live
ZOla.'
The disturbances continued, the anar-
chists 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.
The interest was now transferred to
the streets, where the police had been
reinforced by the Republican guards
At 10 o'clock large bodies of students
--fiourishing the tri-colOr and shouting
s'Vive Tarmies." proceeding in the di-
rection of the Military club in the Ave-
nue. de L'Opera. The troops cleared
the Place de La Republique and charg-
ed the bodies of students. A large force
is protecting the Military club.
BY midnight those who had been ar
rested were released and quiet had been
restored in the Place de POpera.
TeIegrams from numerous provincial
towns reDort student manifestations at
MarseiIles, where the windows of Jew
ish shops were broken At Nantes there
have been some attacks on shops and
syna gogue The crowd rescued those
who were arrested.