New-York tribune., 1900-01-14
PARIS.
MANY FRENCH OFFICERS FIGHTING
FOR THE BOERs.
REQUESTS FOR MEDIATION EXPECTED
YVES GUYoT STILL FOR ENGLAND
AMERICAN SOCIETY.
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made by Henri Rochefort. 211 French officers
ready taken service in the Transvaal army.
Colonel De Viebois- -Mareuil, Chief of Staff to
General Joubert, is acclaimed as the hero Of
Colenso, and is described in the Partisan press
as "the commander who has inflicted upon the
English their most dramatic defeat since the
hattie of Yorktown" Portraits of Colonel De
Villebois- Mareun appear in the newspapers and
in the shop windows. He bids fair to replace
Commandant Marchand the popular favorite
of the moment.
Colonel De villebos- MareuiI is ffty-two years
old. graduated at Saint Cyr in 1868, served
in the marine infantry in Cochin China and as
captain Of rifles in the Army of the Loire, being
decorated on the battlefield. He has been at
tached to the General Staff at the Ministry Of
war, and as a colonel in the French army COM
ntanded the both Regiment of Infantry at
Mayenne, the 9th Regiment at Scissors, and
the Foreign Legion at Side Bel Abbes.
The popular enthusiasm becomes keener with
each week that the war lasts; but those who
have had most experience in gauging the true
national sentiment in France say that the pres
ent outburst of feeling is caused not by love
for the Beers but by hatred toward England
Each British check is described by military
organs like the Echo de Paris' as revenge for
Fashoda. 1t seems well established now that
II was Belgian general Of engineers General
De brlaImont, who as an engineer officer en-
joys the reputation in Europe and America of
being at the very head of his profession who
drew up the plan of campaign for President
KRUGER which General Joubert and the other
TransVaal leaders have far scrupulousIv fol-
lowed. General De Brialmont, in fact drew ND
three different plans for the TransvaaI Repub-
hc Ior use according to certain presupposed
conditions and circumstances and If Is nIan
NO. that is now being worked out by General
Joubert and Colonel De Villebois-MareuiI
ACCORDING to positive information supplied to
me by French civil engineer whose advan
tages for knowing the truth are most excen
tional, the number of rifle cartridges in the
hands OF the Beers at the outbreak Of the cam
paign was one hundred million. OF these nv in
1ormant estimates that thirty millions have al
ready been expended
In diplomatic circles here erea+ z;,,;eo. :,
attached to the cold reception accorded in
Great Britain to Mr.. Balfour's apoJogetic snAecb
ana opinions based on information from the
French Embassy at Albert Gate indicate that
the popular dissatisfaction with the Salisbury
Caplnet is increasing to such an extent that If
the British can only manage to win one solitary
important victory requests for mediation will
forthwith be made simultaneously from London
and Pretoria, and that the two personages most
likely to be asked to act are first President
Mckinley, and, failing him, the King of the
Belgians
dispatch from DR.. Leyds, who recently had
a long and confidential conversation at Berlin
with Count Won Bulow, and who is now in
Brussels and is soon expected in Paris states
that he has reason whatever to suppose that
the Transvaal Government entertains any idea
of refusing to accord to Mr.. Adelbert Hay his
exequatur as Consul at Pretoria when he arrives
there. DR.. Leyds considers the rumors to the
effect that the Transvaal Government intended
to show such want of tact as a mschievous
invention of President Kriger's enemies
Those who sympathze with England in the
present struggle will be glad to note that NJ
Yves Guyot. former Cabinet Minister, and now
Editor of the Steele" who is the only prom
inent writer in France and perhaps on the
Continent OF Europe who honestly takes the
British side, still has the courage of his con-
victions and in a forcble editorial in to-day's
Steele" describes the Beers the Chinese of
Africa, and asks if the world allow fifty
thousand or hundred thousand Outlanders to
be treated as pariahs by thirty thousand Beers
NJ Guyot contrasts Boer pigheaded exclusive
ness with "the true civilization of the United
States, where the Puritans of New-England and
the Quakers Of Pennsylvania opened wide their
doors to Irish, Germans and other foreigners,
and accorded them the franchise" NJ Guyot
asks whether President KRUGER will consent hon.
estly to give the franchise to the Cutlanders
IF not, Englands only course is to fight the
war to the bitter end, and in the interest of hu-
manity to establish lasting peace liberty and
equality in South Africa"
A considerable number of Americans are leav
Ing Paris for the South. Mrs John w, Mac
kay and her daughter have arrived at Nice for
the winter. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White are
passing a few weeks at Grasse on the hills
above Cannes.
The wedding of Miss Marion Munroe and Mr.
Hottinguer is fixed for January %. 1t will take
place at the American Church in the Avenue
Alma.
A musical reception was given to-day by
Countess de Rene de Cetlogon, formerly Miss
Bland at her residence in the Avenue du Bois
de Boulogne. 1t well attended by leading
members Of the American colony. musical
soiree given yesterday by Mr.. Thomas P Thorn
at his apartments in the Place Vend6me, was
also a decided success. Among those present
were General and Mrs. Horace Porter. the
Duchesse de Dino Prince and Princess Radzi-
will, Countess de Trobriand Countess de Get
logon Mrs. Luckermeyer. Mrs. Ingreham, Miss
Fanny Reed, Miss Freeman, Miss King Baron
ess de Reibnitz and her father Mr. Sebastian B.
Schlesinger, Mrs George Law the Marquis and
Marquse de Castrone (the latter being Nine
MarchesD
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Oliver Isen have taken an
apartment in Paris for the rest Of the winter:
so has also Mr.. Daniel Dougherty.
Among the Americans passing through Paris
are Mr. and Mrs. William Fries. of San Fran
cisco; Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Drake, Captain L. n
Whitehouse Mrs. Augustus Eddy and Mr. and
Mrs. D. S. Kidder.
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