The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-28
ALARM IN CAPE COLONY
FEARS ARE EXPRESSED OF A GEN
ERAL DUTCH up
RISING
DOM PAUL KRUGER IN PARIS
Feature of the Venerable Boer
Leaders, Day Was the Presenta-
ton of Sword of Honor
for CrOnje.


THE anti-Britfsh feeling in Cape Col
ony is assuming dangerous proportions
owing to false stories spread Of British
barbarity in Orange River Colony and
the Transvaal. Loyalists fear that the
Dutch congress next week will be the
signal for a rising and they demand
that martial law be proclaimed through
out the colony.
The situation is declared to be graver
than at any previous period during the
war"
Referring editorially to it's Cape Town
advices the Daily Mail adopts most
serious tone asserting that the anti
British movement is accentuated by the
withdrawal of troops from Cape Colony
and calling for vigorous action by the
British government.
KRUGER'S BUSY DAY.
PARIS, Nov 27-AIr. Kruger began a
busy Gay this morning by making an
official call. Before O'Clock he de-
parted from the hotel scribe, driving in
a landau surrounded by Republican
guards and by cycle policemen to visit
the Premier NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau He
was accompanied by DR.. Leyds. DR.. Van
iammell and Delegate Fisher. The
party was met at the entrance to the
prem1ers salon, by NJ. Ulrich, director
OF the cabinet, who introduced the visitors
to the prime minister. The interview
took place in M. Waldeck- Rousseau's p1i-
vate study and lasted ten minutes. At
half past eight o'clock the Premier ac-
compan1ed by M. Ulrich returned the
call.
The officials of the municipal council
OF Paris and of the general council of
The Seine were received at 10 a. M by
MI. Kruger in the hotel Scribe I'M
mediately after the visitors had departed
Mr.. Kruger drove to the hotel de Vile
He received an ovation from a large
crowd massed in the square in front of
the edlf1ce. MIR. Kruger was conducted
TO the debating hall, where he was given
the arm chair reserved for representa-
t1ves of governments. The nunicinsi
councillors and the people in the public
galleries loudly cheered the distinguished
visitor. Vice President Escudier de-
nVered an eloquent address, saying Paris
mao given Mr.. Kruger a welcome worthy
OF his noble character and the grandeur
OF MS cause, He also said:
FRANCE WANTS ARBITRATION.
You have heard the heart of Paris
beat. 1t is the heart Of France. Let
the peoples speak and speak loudly, and
arbitration will impose itself as neces-
sary satisfaction to justice and civiliza-
ton"
The president of the general council
spoke in a similar strain.
Mr. Kruger replied in energetic tones,
thanking the speakers for the sentiments
expressed. He said he was deeply CRATE
full for the welcome, which was a con-
unuatlon OF and, a, browning of that
France had already given, him Since
he landed, the former president added. he
had been on a rising wave Of acclama-
ton. He was very thankful for what
had been done and for what they wished
to do for him and his. people, who Were
still struggling and We're not yet de-
feated.
Their resistance continues and will still
continue. They will ever struggle for
independence, liberty and justice.
Continuing, Mr. Kruger said:
''Ah! Why cannot they hear your ac-
carnations? 1t would redoubIe their cour-
age"
Mr.. Kruger also said he hoped they
would yet know them, one day in the
future, when they had recovered their
independence. He regretted arbitration
had been refused and he would never
cease to demand it.
The Boer leader was then shown
through the superbly decorated halls of
the hotel de vile. Once he appeared
at a window and was enthusiastically
cheered. AS he drove back to his hotel
he was accorded a warm greeting On
the road.
The president of the municipal council
tomorrow will propose in the council a
vote in favor Of arbitrating the Trans
vaal disputes.
SWORD FOR GEN. CRONJE.
Henri Rochefort, accompanied by
deputation including Deputies Millevoye
and PauIin Meria, Senator Provost de
Launay and NM Cope and Lemaitre, to-
day presented Mr. Kruger with a sword
of honor destined for Gen. Cronje, now
prisoner on the Island of st. Helena.
M. Rochefort, in handing the sword to
Mr. Kruger spoke of the heroism of the
Beers and expressed the hope that the
syndicate of thrones" will some day be
overthorwn by a Syndicate of the peo-
pie"
During the day thousand students
formed in procession in the Latin quar-
ter, each school preceded by a banner
and the whole headed by a magnificent
bouquet of chrysanthemums, tied with
ribbons of the French and Transvaal
coIors and inscribed: 1.-THE students of
Paris to President Kruger-for the
Fatherland and Right" The students
marched across the Seine and were loud
ly cheered on their way to the Hotel
Scribe Then President Kruger appeared
This evening Mr.. Kruger and Dr.
Lydes drove to the foreign office, where
they We're received by the minister Of
foreign affairs, NJ. Delcasse, with whom
they had an interview lasting three
quarters of an hour. On their departure
NJ. Delcasse conducted Mr.. Kruger from
the staircase.
STUDENTS RIOTOUS.
took place in Marseilles occurred on the
arrival of the students procession at the
Hotel Scribe. An upper window of the
Grand hotel opposite was opened and a
handful of small copper and silver coins
was thrown down. The students in
censed at the insult, wished to attack a
shipping Office which is on the street
level, but the police interfered, pointing
out that the shippers had no connection
with people above them. Ultimately the
shippers were persuaded by the police to
close the Office in order to avert further
incidents.
A delegation of four students entered
the hotel and presented bouquet to IMr.
! Kruger, who. accompanied by them, ap-
peared on the balcony, arousing great
enthusiasm among the students. who
now numbered two thousand. A constd-
| cradle body Of the students stationed
themselves below the window from which
the money had been thrown, singing anti
English songs and shouting down with
the English No disturbance, however
occurred.
When the attention of DR.. Leyds was
called this afternoon to the statement
attributed to Mr. Samuel Pearson. form
er commissary general of the TransvaaI
army, and cabled from New York that
Mr.. Kruger would probably soon pro-
coed to the United States, he replied:
The rumor is without foundation.
Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup