Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-11-29
KRUGER'S RECEPTION
Former President of the Transvaal
Welcomed to Marseilles.
NOISY DEMONSTRATION BY STUDENTS
DIR. Leyds Represented ME-. Kruger at tho
Bauquet-Ths Aged Exile IN Landing
Said the B0ers Would Never
Surrender

Said the BOers Would Never
Surrender
Marseilles, Nov. 23.-Former Presi-
dent Kruger, of the Transvaal rernb-
lie in South Africa, landed here yes
terday. He bore the sea voyage ex-
tremely well. Many of his friends say
he looks in better health than before
he left Pretoria. The heavy gale and
rough cross seas which the Gelder-
land encountered in the Meditel IA
mean, however, proved too much for
the distinguished traveller Wednesday
and for the first time since he started
for Europe he was seasick. But Mr.
Kruger showed little effects Of his
seasickness yesterday and ate a
hearty luncheon. He afterwards "e-
ceiyed delegations from various mu-
inequalities and societies in the hall
of the hotel. This proved to be Sc
we're trial, as Mr.. Kruger had to listen
to couple of hours eloquence, but
to him unintelligible addresses in
French, and he left the hall visihly
fatigued.
Unfortunately the highly repre-
hensible foolishness of half a dozen
persons at hotel on the main boule-
ward in throwing coins into the crowd
as Mr.. Kruger passed, acted like magic
in coniuring up an anti-British ort-
burst, which it needed all the prompti-
tude and energy of the police to pre-
vent becoming serious disturbance.
The hotel remained for the rest Of
the day in state of siege, while at
one time procession several thou
sand strong marched in the direction
of the British consulate, shouting
"Down with the English and raising
other threatening cries. The result
was that strong body Of police was
compelled to dispense the demon
strators, although it was not found
necessary to make more than a few
temporary arrests. Throughout the
evening, however, large bands of stu
dents and other youths marched up
and down in front of Mr.. Ringers
hotel and of the hotel which was the
scene of the unfortunate incident,
cheering in chorus for Mr.. Kruger and
the Transvaal and denooncing En-
gland. These demonstrators were
more noisy than dangerous, and the
police wisely left them to relieve their
feelings by shouting, instead of inter-
fering with them, which might have
created disorder.
DR.. Leyds represented Mr.. Kruger
at the banquet in his honor, where all
the Boer officials and members of the
pro-Boer committees We're present,an
read the following message from him.
81 am fatigued and am in mourning.
Moreover, | never attend banquets.
Otherwise should have liked to spend
few minutes with you and to thank
you. shall never forget the warm
welcome | have had in your beautiful
city. Your reception of me has sur
passed all I could have expected even
from the city which gave France her
admirable national hymn, that Mar
sellaise, which is the song of all peo-
pies whose independence is threat
ened and who are struggling against
invaders. | would that your acclama-
ton could have been heard by all
those Beers in arms who are en-
camped in our mountains, They
would thank you from the bottom of
their hearts. | thank you in their be-
half. Could | have been with you |
should have also expressed my thanks
~ France and would have raised
my glass in honor of her worthy
president, M. Loubet."
Mr.. Kruger left for Paris at nine
o'clock this morning. The commit
tee of Boer independence has posted
placard in Paris calling upon
Parisians to give Mr.. Kruger the
warmet possible welcome.
At the landing Mr.. Kruger made a
speech in which he said: "Ibelieve
England, had she been better in
formed, would have never consented
to this war, and since the expedition
of jameson, who wished to seize the
two republics without the necessity
Of firing a rifle shot, | have never
ceased to demand q tribunal OF arbi-
tration, which up to now has always
been refused. The war waged on us
in the two republics reached the last
limits of barbarism During my lite
| have had to fight many times the
savages of the tribes of Africa, but
the barbarians we have to fight now
are worse than the others. They even
urge the Kaffirs against us. They
burn the farms we worked so hard to
construct, and they drive out our
women and children, whose brothers
and husbands they have killed or
taken prisoners, leaving them unpro-
tected and roofless and often without
bread to eat, But, whatever they may
do, we will never surrender. We will
fight to the end. Our great imper-
ishable confidence reposes to the
eternal, in our God. We know our
cause is just, and if the justice of men
is wanting to us, He, the eternal, who
is master of all peoples, and to whom
belongs the future, will never aban-