Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-27
KRUGER IN PARIS.
Was Given Magnificent Reception
Boulevards Crowded With People.

was Given MagnlTicenr reception
Bculevards Crowded With People.
Paris, Nov. 24.-Kruger and party
entered the train at Dion at $50
o'clock. In spite of the early hour
fair number of inhabitants assembled
on the platform and cheered the
statesman. Kruger uttered a few
words of thanks to the city for its
splendid welcome. The train only
stopped once enroute, at LaRocha,
where deputation with flags were
waiting at the station to present kru-
ger with a warmly worded address OF
admiration and sympathy for the Boer
cause. Kruger thanked the deputa-
ton thru his interpreter. Elsewhere
along the route there were the same
scenes as yesterday. People waiting
on the sidetrack and on bridges and
other points of vantage.
Crush of People.
Nearing Paris these gatherings
grew more frequent and in larger
numbers. Notwithstanding the strin-
gent precautions to admit only ticket
holders, a large assemblage filled the
station here while thru open doors
could be seen a huge concourse OF peo-
pie gathered in the court yard out
side. Kruger, after being formally
| received by the mayor and municipal
| councillors, entered carriage and
was driven to the Hotel Scribe amid
enthusiastic cheering, which followed
him along the entire route. A large
escort of mounted municipal guards
rode around Kruger's carriage.
Became Uproarious.
When the Boer president entered the
cleared area in trout of the hotel, the
demonstration became uproarious.
Kruger, bareheaded, bowed on all
sides, while the air was rent with cries
of "Vive Kruger" "Vive les Beers
After Kruger entered the hotel the
people continued their shouting and
yelling until he appeared upon the bal
cony, when the greatest enthusiasm
; prevailed. The scene before the hotel
continued for over an hour. Thruout
all the fervid welcome the anti-Britisl
sentiment did not appear. The cries
were confined to plaudits of Kruger
and the Beers.
Paris, Nov 24.-Kruger arrived IL
Paris at 10:4O o'clock and was giver
a magnificent reception. The boule
wards were crowded with vast throng:
of people.
Dijon, France, Nov. 24.-Mr. Kruge
has become, for moment at least,th'
} popular idol of the French. His trium
plant progress northward thru thu
country from Marseilles to Dion ha
I placed this beyond doubt. He me
with a tremendous reception in eacl
/ town along the route where the trail
: stopped, eliminating in scenes o
} frenzied enthusiasm here this even
t ing calculated to turn the head of an
! man.
: The demonstration was all the NOR
: significant because it shows that tn
4 perfervid acclamations at Marsellle
o were not merely an explosion of ext
e berance on the part of the warn
o hearted and excitable populace of
sunny cline, but sentiments share
a with even greater intensity by tn
/. usually less demonstrative inhabitant
q of the northern provinces.
, The few Englishmen whose il
!. timed levity at the Hotel du Louvr
in Marseilles exasperated the peoplei
: the streets there never dreamed {
the serious consequences of their &C
= They sowed the wind and today tn
English people are reaping the whir
. wind.
9 The news of the supposed insult I
Mr.. Kruger seems to have sprea
across France and at all stations, b,
a especially at Lyons and Dijon, shout
i. for the Beers were mingled with lou
o cries of Down with the English
n Indeed, at Lyons the denunciation I
Il the English drowned the shouting fl
the Beers. This is a disturbing fea
ure which is universally discussed.
j Fears are expressed that today's T
j ception at Paris may assume cha
4 acter calculated to arouse the feelir
y of Great Britain against France
such an extent as to result in unplea
q ant relations between the two cou
j tries.