The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-13
PRESIDENT LOUBET
ON HIS WAY TO
ALGERIA
Chief Executive of France
Leaves Paris Large
French Fleet Assembled
at Algiers to Meet Him
Meeting May Be Arranged
With Sultan of Morocco.

PARIS, April 12.-President Loubet,
of the senate, Fore;SI Minister Del
casse and NJ. Pelletan, the minister of
marine, left Paris this evening fog
Marseilles, on his way to Algeria. The
president was warmly cheered as ac-
companied by an escort of cuirassiers
he drove across Paris from the Elysee
palace to the Lyons railway station.
Premier Combes and those ministers
who did not accompany the presidents
were present at the station to bid him
farewell.
After short stay at Marseilles,
where great fetes will be given in his
honor, President Loubet will embark
next Tuesday on the new warship
Jeanne dare, and, accompanied by
NM. Fallieries, Delcasse and PeIletan
and escorted by the battleship ST.
Louis, will proceed to Algiers, where q
large French fleet is assembled to re-
ceive him. Squadrons of British, Ital-
ian and Russian warships are also now
assembling at Algiers in his honor
The president will remain in AIgiers
until April 26,visiting important points
in the colony both on the coast and in
the interior. 1t is expected that during
his stay meeting will be arranged
With the sultan of Morocco the latter
coming to some point in Algeria near
the Moroccan frontier for that pur-
pose. Everywhere throughout the col
ony splendid fetes are being organized
in honor of President Loubet, this be-
ing the first time since Napoleon Ill s
visit that a ruler of France has visited
Algeria.
The French president will embark
again on the warship Jeanne dare for
Tunis. He will land April 27 at La
Goletta, the port of Tunis, where the
bey of Tunis and all the high officials
of the regency will be assembled to re-
ceive him. After spending three days
in visiting the various parts of Tunis,
president Loubet will embark at the
naval port of Bizerta on the evening of
April 29 for Marseilles. He will ar
rive in Paris in time to receive Edward
VII on the arrival of the king of Eng
land here.
Besides Ministers Delcasse and Pelle-
tan, NJ. Maurejouls, minister of public
works, also will %se of the presidential
party. He has gone in advance to
meet the president at Algiers. A num-
DCA VI oSLdlOIS anu uepull6S Will dC-
company the presidential party
throughout the trip, being accommo-
dated during the trip across the Medi-
terranean on board the battleship st.
Louis. Much political significance is
attached to the journey, as it is the
first time that any president of the
French republic has visited her Afri-
can possessions and it will be the first
meeting on African soil between a
French ruler and a North African sui
tan and the hey of Tunis
While the international attention
shown to President Loubet by the as
semblage of a powerful foreign squad
ron in Algerian waters to salute him
on his arrival is not without signif-
icance, the fact that the bey of Tunis
will go to receive the president on his
landing, an honor that the potentate
has never before paid any royal Wis
1tor, already has made a powerful i'm
preston on the Tunisians, who con-
slider this a complete acknowledgment
of French sovereignty.