The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-20
M. GUERIN FINALLY GIVES UP
SURREY TO fl L-IRGE FORGE
 EARLY THIS MORNING.
Had Given Him Until O'Clock-Every Preparation Made to Capture Fort if Inmates Decided to Hold Out-Troops and Policemen on Hand -Stronss hold Was 10 Have First Been Flooded.
Been Flooded.

Paris Sept, 20, 430 a. m.-At 4
 o'clock this morning M Guerin prom
 ised to surrender. There had been con-
 siderable military activity in the Rue
 de Chabrol throughout the night. At
 the hour appointed captain of the
 municipal guard rapped at the door of
 Fort Chabrol. M. Guerin presented
 himself, surrendered and was driven to
 the police depot in an open cab, seated
 beside the captain of the guards, His
 companions were allowed to go free.
 Thus the six weeks siege ended in a
 sublimely ridiculous style. The night
 was well chosen by the government. as
 the excitement over the capture of the
 fort would divert attention from the
 pardon extended to Dreyfus. The plan
 was to wreck the building and arrest
 Guerin and his band. The government
 had given him until o'clock this morn-
 ing to surrender and had an army to
 assail the fort if he refused. Troops, municipal guards, mounted and on foot and nearly 1000 policemen were dispatched to cordon all the streets within the radius of quarter of a mile from Fort Chabrol.
 One would imagine that a general as- sault upon fortified camp was about to take place. At 2:40 a. m., a colonel and two majors of the republican guard arrived at the scene. At a. m., M. Guern's brother, with M. Chan teloube, whose consumptive son was inside the fort, arrived Both were much moved. Then came M. Lepine, prefect of police; M. Cochfore, chief of the secret police, and other high police officials These were followed by a colonel of the fire brigade and de- tachments of mounted and foot re- publican guards. Twenty cabs and two hundred military engineers were held in readiness at the barracks near by, and there were ambulances within easy distance, apparently ready for any emergency or for an attempt at res cue. At 3:3O General Dalstein, who had charge of the troops arrived. The attack was to be made soon after o'clock The policemen were to be used first and then, in case of desperate re- sistance by the garrison, the soldiers. Even up to q. m. troops continued to arrive.
 M. Millevoye entered the fort, ac- by NJ. Joseph Lascs, anti Semitic, deputy for Condom, to renew his efforts to persuade the garrison to surrender. After a stormy half hours discussion between Guerin and his eom- panions. Guerin informed the deputies that all would surrender, adding that he had been compelled to use deal of to induce them to yield. A. i:15 a. m, NM. Millevoye and Lascs is sued from the fort and the arrest of Guerin followed Guerin's companions agreed to surrender but the police told them they were free. The strange presented by the extraordi- nary military and police measures drew I large crowd of well dressed Paris ans, who stood about on the sidewalks md walked up and down the roadways laughing and chatting. The cafes in he streets all around were wide open and doing roaring business. The greatest animation prevailed
 The government had decided to flood | he fort if Guerin had refused to sur 'ender and had couple of hundred fire nen with steam pumps on fire escapes md miles of hose. All the, buildings
  guards Guerins house is lower than | he surrounding edifces, and firemen | were placed on upper stories of the | alter. overlooking the fort, prepared | o turn on the water as soon as the sig | lal should be given, while below, in he street, the engines were ready for Iction. Infantry officers and officers of | guard paced up and down turing the hours of waiting glancing ID at the windows of the fort, from which in the dim light could be dis inguishred a black flag hoisted from he second floor by Guerin, and a white sheet hanging down with the de- ice in black lettering "Vive PArmee" nd "A bas les Traitres" When M. iuerin's companions separated. they ook coaches and were driven off. M. joined his parents. Then he troops departed, followed by the guards and the police except
 few who remained to keep order. The crowd then dispersed with lit- le or no disturbance.