The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-06
PARIS ENTHUSES
IN CELEBRATION
French Capital Slowly Recover
ing From Bad Case OF
Fourth of July.
AMERICAN FLAG EVERYWHERE
At Maxim's There Is Regular
Bombardment Of Cham
payne Corks.
AMERICAN FLAG EVERYWHERE
by GEORGES DUFREsNE.

BY GEORGES DUFRESNE.
Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch
Paris. July 6.-Par!s to-day ,s slowly
OF Fourth of July, which was ccle-
brated with as much enthusiasm as IL
II had been Bastille Day, ten days
hence. No one arriving In Paris yes
terday could doubt that the city was
celebrating. and that the hearts OF the
people took part in the festivities from
Montmarte to Suartier Latin, and from
Vincennes to Neuilly
The Stars and Stripes were seen ev-
erywherc together with the Tricolor
Avenue de rOpera was sea Of Amcri-
can flags from the Opera to Palais
Royal. and when you looked down the
thoroughfares on each side Boulevard
DIES Italiens. Boulevard des Capucines
and all the rest of them. the same sight
met your eyes. The military bands
everywhere played Hail. Columbia"
and Sousa's marches, and there were
Americans everywhere.
walked along Boulevard and Place
Clichy In Montmatre in the evening and
found 1t hard to imagine that l had not
suddenly been transported into an
american city. In Bal Tabarin, Polias
Bergers and Olympia more than half
OF the visitors were Americans, and as
l walked actoss Place de la Concorde
after midnight the sky was streaked
with rockets emitting luminous clouds
OF red. white and blue stars.
AT Maxims. in Rue Rouale, there was
a regular bombardment Of champagne
corks. saluting the glorious Fourth
and I was immediately made prisoner
by q jolly crowd OF young Yankees of
both sexes. who would not hear OF my
going home until breakfast time. When
! left at 1880 In the morning. the fam
Gus cafe was all rag time and turkey
trot and the red coated tzigancs
were playing Dixie" madly when l
opened the door and stepped outside in
the bright daylight in Rue Royal.
Journalists Hnmpcred.
Apparently Journalists are not per-
mitted intelligently TO anticipate Ger
tain events in Alsace- Lorraine. a
short time ago the Mathis" Strass-
burg correspondent announced that the
government Of Alsace-Lorraine pro-
posed to tablish certain laws in
the annexed provinces. The publica-
ton OF the news as to the governments
intentions led to interpretations in the
Alsace- Lorraine Parliament and in the
ReichstaE.
The authorities opened an inquiry
among officials with n view to ascer-
tanning the name Of the person who had
given Information to the Journalist
The inquiry had no result, but for the
ii
have been busy with the affair The
journalist who sent the information to
Paris was summoned before the Judge
and asked to give the name of the per-
son who had primed him.
He refused to give the information
on the ground of professional secrecy
his refusal 70 take an oath ito tell
the truth. and nothing but the truth"
was Followed by the imposition of a
ine OF Sc or ten days imprisonment
The judge added that the. code pro
vided for the employment of coercive
measures and that if the journalist per-
sisted in his silence he could be kept in
prison for six months.
The journalist replied that the honor
OF his procession was at stake, and that
he would not speak even If the meas
rres provided in the code were put into
operation He was set at liberty, but
afterwards told that he must hold him
self at the disposal of the judge The
journalist says that he will go to prison
affair shows that journalistic Scoop
IN Alsace-Lorraine, especially II II
tells against the government, is not
without its dangers
Campaign Is Vigorous.
IN spite OF the promptitude with
which the government acted after the
demonstrations in certain regiments
against the three years service sys
lem. there is no doubt that the anti
miiitarlsts arc prosecuting their cam
laign as vigorously a ever. The real
authors of the unpleasant incidents in
the regiments have apparently not been
discovered. or If they have been found
no action has been taken against them
soldiers are being punished for breaches
OF discipline. but the propagators of
antimilitarist ideas are allowed to ar
game meeting after meeting in the
large towns of the country and pass
resolutions against the army reforms
which the keenest intellects have de-
clared to be necessary in the interests
of the nation.
Keen observers see the danger OF the
ahtimihtarist campaign. So far II is
largely confined to the militant trade
unionists, who are not ONLY against
the three years service. but are hostile
70 the Idea OF standing army at all
lhcy welcome the introduction OF this
army reform for the reason that IT
has given them an opportunity of ad-
Vertising their existence These mon
have blind, faith in tho solidarity OF
socialists the world over, and they are
preaching doctrines which would not
DE tolerated in Germany. And il is
open TO question whether the German
Socialists. even If they were given a
free hand, would go the length of
these apostles of no army and no coun-
try
1t becomes a question whether the
government Will not have to take dras-
tic measures to put down these mis-
chievous agitators, whose crusade is
being watched with great interest on
tho other side of the Rhine Germany
has been able to make arrangements
for strengthening her army without
concerning herself about the views of
the Socialists. But France Is decided
ly hampered by the action of the anti
militaristS, who have become a ma
tional danger. and sooner or later the
question will have to be considered
whether freedom OF speech has not