The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-13
A RULER OF FRANCE
TO VISIT ALGERIA FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN YEARS.
NOT SINCE NAPOLEON III
HAS THE FRENCH COLONY RE-
CEIVED IT'S CHEF.

President LOubet Left Paris Yes
terday for the Triple viii Re
Accompanied by "a Retinne of
Statesmen-COnvOy of War YES
sells for the Voyage Across the
Mediterran will Re-
ceive Him in State-He VIII Meet
the Sultan of Morocco.
Paris, April 12.-President Loubet.
accompanied by NJ. Fallieres president
of the Senate. Foreign Minister Del
casse and M. Pelletan, the Minister
of Marine, left Paris this evening for
Marseilles on his way to Algeria
The President was warmly cheered,
as accompanied by an escort of curas-
siers, he drove across Paris from the
Elysee Jeanne dare for Tunis. He
will land April II, at LaGoletta, the
Port of Tunis where the Bey of Tunis
and all the high officials of the re-
gency will be assembled to receive
him. After spending three days in
visiting the various ports of Tunis, the
President will embark at the naval
port of Bizerta on the evening of April
20 for Marseilles. He will arrive in
Paris in time to receive Edward VII.
on the arrival of the King of Eng
land here.
Besides Ministers Delcasse and Pei
letan, M. Maurejouls, Minister of Pub
lie Works, will also be of the party.
He has gone in advance to meet the
President at Algiers. A number of
senators and deputies will accompany
the presidential party throughout the
trip, being accommodated during the
trip across the Mediterranean on board
the battleship Saint Louis.
Has Political Significance.
Much political significance is at
tached to the journey as it is the
first time that any president of the
French republic has visited her Afri-
can possessions, and it win be the
first meeting on African soil between
a French ruler and North African
Sultan and the Palace to the Lyons
Railway station. Premier Combes and
those ministers who do not accompany
the President, were present at the sta
ton to bid him farewell.
| After a short stay in 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
M. M. Fallieres, Delcasse and Peletan,
and escorted by the battleship Saint
Louis, will proceed to Algiers, where
a large French fleet is assembled to
receive him. Squadrons of British,
Italian and Russian warships also are
now assembling at Algiers in his hon.
or.
The President will remain in Algeria
until April 26, visiting important points
in the colony, both on the coats and
in the interior. 1t is expected that
during his stay a meeting will be ar
ranged with the Sultan of Morocco,
the latter coming to some point in
Algeria near the Moroccan frontier
for that purpose.
Fotes in His Honor.
Everywhere throughout the colony
splendid fetes are being organized in
honor of President Loubet this being
the first time since Napoleon HTS
visit that a ruler of France has visited
Algeria.
The French President will embark
again on the warship Bey of Tunis.
w nile the international intention
shown to President Loubet by the as
semblage of powerful foreign squadron
in Algerian waters to salute him on
his arrival is not without significance,
the fact that the Bey of Tunis will go
to receive the President on his landing,
an honor that the potentate never
before has paid any royal visitor, all
ready has made a powerful impress
sion on the Tunisians, who consider
this a complete acknowledgment of
French sovereignty