The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-11-30
KRUGER YISITSPARIS
Exiled Transvaal President Is
Greeted as a 0onquering Hero,
he IS CHEERED BY MANY THOUSANDS
Hls Tour Through the French Republic
Was n Continuous Ovation-No
Trouble Apprehsnded.

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time at least the popular idol of the
French. His triumphant progress
northward through the country from
Marseiles TO Dion and from Dion 10
Paris settled this beyond doubt He
met q tremendous reception in each
town along the route where the train
stopped, eliminating in scenes Of
frenzied enthusiasm calculated to turn
the head Of any man.
The population Of Marseilles gath
cred in thousands 70 escort him to the
railroad station and gave him a rous
ing send-off, while at Tarascon, Avig-
non, Valence, Lyons, Macol and Dion
the inhabitants, who crowded the rail-
road stations, made the rafters tremble
with enthusiastic shouts of "vive Kru
ger" and "vive les Beers"
Saturday the city OF Paris welcomed
Mr.. Kruger in a whole-hearted man
ner, according him a sincere reception
at the railroad station and showing by
the cheering of the crowds along the
route that he was cordially welcome
and had the sympathy of the populace.
From early morning the street hGw-
kers did not permit the throngs to
forget that it was Kruger day. All
sorts of insignia were offered for sale.
Small Boer flags, badges of the Boer
colors and scarf pins OF the same
character were called out on the bou-
levards and lucky were the statesmen,
for almost every one wore a Boer
| emblem.
BY the time Kruger's train was due
all the places of vantage about the rail-
road station and the hotel were packed
for the distance of about a block.
Among those gathered at the railroad
station were Count Boni de Casteliane
| and several other we'll known national
| lists and Miss Maude Come and party
from the Irish delegation. The crowd
on the platform pressed so closely
about Mr. Kruger's salon car that for
time he was unable to alight and
stood on the footboard, bareheaded,
acknowledging the plaudits of his ad-
mirers.
Mr.. Crozler, chief of the protocol
department of the foreign Office, to
which is intrusted the questions Of
etiquette and the reins of diplomats,
and others advanced and bid Mr..
Kruger welcome in behalf of President
| Loubet and the French government.
Mr.. Kruger bowed his thanks.
Mayor Grevaul then greeted Mr..
Kruger in behalf of the municipality
of Paris, and the president of the pro-
Boer committee and others presented
the aged traveller with addresses Of
welcome, to which Mr.. Kruger replied
that he was extremely happy to again
find himself in the beauty city of Paris
and asserted that he was touched t.
the bottom Of his heart by the welcome
he had received aud could not fine
words to express his appreciation o
the sympathy Frenchmen were dis
playing toward his country. He con
Guided with saying he had faith in thu
Boer nation, which, though temples
tossed, would keep aAoat and never
sink
A sight which stirred the feelings 0
: the crowd to the utmost was the ap
pearance on the hotel balcony of tn
great grandchildren of Mr.. Kruger
7 waving Boer flag. The little one
e were cheered to the echo as, held alof
n by servant, they unfurled the Doe
+, colors.
Through all this fervid welcome tn
Y anti-British sentiment did not appear
n The cries were confined to plaudits {
e Mr.. Kruger and the Beers. If ther
were any shouts opposed to Gret
Britain they were not heard in til
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