The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-12
RANCE
Hate to Have Soldiers Serve Tn
der Waldersee.
WOUNDS NOT HEALED
ECHOES OF DREYFUS CASE-EX-
POSITION AWARDS SOON.

4 rance, WASh LOESSO 70 q OSSASlc4lS VIII
graciously admit the superior rank of
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee
and acknowledge him as a generals
simO Of the allied troops in China, the
Paris press and French citizens will
accept the situation with a grimace
such as bitter medicine produces.
Though years have passed, the time is
not long enough to efface the memory
OF the day when the German troops
marched along the Champs Elysees,
and so it is even thought an expedi-
tiOnary force under a German COM
mander will be sufficient to throw the
anti-republican press into qualms of
resentment. Naturally, the govern
ment is the object against which they
hurl their anathemas. The Libre Pa
role saws:
We will be considered a nation of
the second part-in fact, a part of
the German confederation" while the
Echo de Paris speaks of the humilia-
ton OF the French soldiers and the
sacrifice therein imposed What makes
the dose more nauseating is the fact
that General Negrier, July "A, pleaded
to be sent to China, but his offer to
go was not accepted. He outranks
Count Won Waldersee, and thus it
would have been permitted to France
to hold the leading Office.
The announcement in Berlin that
France acduieSced in the selection of
the cOmmander-in- is at least pre-
mature. No such acknowledgment has
been admitted, so the foreign Office in
formed a representative of the Asso-
ciated Press, but there is no DISPOSE
ton to stand out against the other
powers in consenting when CouIIc Won
Waldersee shall have reached China
Relief Must Come First.
This hubbub is purely political, and
is not disconcerting, said a member
of Frances official family. I'VE have
present duty to perform, which is the
immediate relief of the Christians in
Pekin. Surely none expects. in the face
Of the appeals for rescue, that the al
lies will camp out while the ministers
telegraph urging immediate assistance.
1t will be the middle OF October when
Count Won Waldersee arrives. Is there
anyone who counsels inactivity for that
time? The cable dispatches from our
minister TO China, NJ. PichOn, leaves
no question as to the advisability of
quick action, for it is evident that the
dynasty is painfully anxious to rid it
self of the foreign ministers in order
to arrest the march of the allies on
means almost sure death TO all for
eigners to order the legations to accept
a Chinese escort, which would probably
massacre them. We must march, and
all Frances influence must be brought
to bear in this direction. We need
no generalissimo to accomplish this"
Paris, which began seriously to
doubt that NJ. Pichon was living, was
intensely relieved Thursday when the
-
of the dispatch was warmly applauded
as indicating that the official position
of France was not one of aggrandize-
ment, but one of simple regard for the
lives and property of the Christians.
Echoes of Dreyfus Case.
The recent announcement of decora-
tiOns conferred gave the reactisnary
press an opportunity to recall the pro-
ceedings of the high court which ex-
lied NM. Deroulede and Goerin. In
the list of those ornamented are found
the names of nearly all those who were
prominently connected with the prose-
cution before the court, thus permit
ting the suggestion that they have
finally received their salaries. The
courts this week have also had SOU
venir of the high court in the proceed
ings against DR.. Devilliers, charged
1
had been passed upon DerOulede. DR..
Pozzi was member of the court. The
men met at a club and Devilliers said:
Il am sorry to see you since you
dared to condemn DerOulede, whom a
jury had acquitted"
The result was a duel in which Dr.
POZzi was wounded. Although a recon-
Citation was effected, the government
decided upon prosecution on the
IL
dict, and DR.. Devilliers was fined 5000
| francs.
Attacks a Cab Evil.
NJ. Lepine, the project of police, has
| taken sternly in hand two of the most
annoying evils to which strangers in
Paris are bound to submit-trickery
and overcharge on the part of the. cab
drivers and the Fostering of promenad-
ers on the boulevards by persons bent
on the sale of transparent cards. sa-
| laciOus literature and other articles, the
/ sale of which would mean immediate
| Imprisonment in any city in the United
| States. So vigorously has the latter
| class been assailed by the police that
many innocent newsboyS have been
arrested. but the result of NJ. Lepine'
| effort has been very noticeable on the
! boulevards the last two nights.
!
dening faults of the cab drivers. which
cause many an American to use un-
printable words, he has issued long
| series of rules compelling cabmen to
notify passengers of the exact amount
of their fare before starting, prohibit
! ing the faVorite paStime of the drivers
that of smoking on duty; compelling
them to accept passengers, and in many
other ways restricting cabmen. 1t is
undoubtedly due to the arbitrary &C
! ton of the cabmen during the expOsi-
ton that their strike is receiving no
sympathy, and though they have de-
| cided to continue the strike the bot
tom of it has dropped out and trans
portation is scarcely impeded-
Police Watch Anarchists.
The police are also busily engaged
watching the anarchistic groups. Since
the attempt was made to kill the shah
of Persia an investigation has been car
ried on which resulted in the discovery
Of several meeting places of the Reds.
1t is now certain that the deseration Of
the D'Auberville cathedral was the
work of anarchists, and it is not sure
that Salson was not participant il
that outrage. Salson continues his reti
cence, every effort to induce him t
break his silence being unaVailing. Va
lette, who was arrested as an accom-
plice of Salson, has been released FOL
want Of proof of completely.
More Mad Dogs in Paris.
The annual report on the subject o
hydrophobia which has Just been pre-
sented to the council of public hygien
by Professor Poust shows by statistic
that the number of mad dogs in Pari
and the department of the Seine
steadily increasing. The Pasteur Insti
tute treated 294 persons who had bee
bitten by rabid animals between tn