Show i ok n t f j KRUGER CHEWED while en route from marseilles to paris dijon france nov 24 mr kruger has become for the moment at least the popular idol of the freach ills triumphant passage northward through the country from Mareel to dijon has placed this beyond doubt he met with a tremendous reception in each town along the route where the train stopped culminating in scenes 0 frenzied enthusiasm here last evening calculated to turn the head 0 any man the population of marseilles gathered in thousands to escort him to the railroad station and save him a rous bog send oft while at carascon tarascon Ta rascon avignon valencia lyons macol and dijon the inhabitants who crowded ho railroad station made the cattera tremble with enthusiastic shouts of alve kruger and vive les boers the demonstration was all the more significant because it shows that the fervid acclamations at marseilles wera not merely an explosion of exuberance on the part of the warmhearted warm hearted and excitable populace of a sunny clime but sentiments shared with even greater intensity by tho usually less demonstrative and colder blooded inhabitants of the northern provinces one of the most important phases of the demonstration was the turn in anti british direction the few foolish englishman whose ill timed levity at the hotel du louvre in marseilles exasperated the people in the streets there never dreamed of the consequences of their act th ey bowed sowed the wind and the english people are reaping the whirlwind the news of the supposed insult to mr kruger seems fb have spread across france and at all stations but especially at lyons and dijon shouts for the boers were mingled with loud cries ot down with the Lyons the denunciations ciati ons of the english drowned the for the boers fears are expressed that the reception in paris may assume a character calculated to arouse alie feeling of great britain against france to such an extent as to result in unpleasant relations between the two countries the warmth of enthusiasm received in marseilles palpably raised the spirit of mr kruger and his advisers to a high pitch mr fischer spoke to mr kruger today regarding the visit of the boer envoys to the united states and told him of the welcome they had received there from the american people he expressed himself grateful to know that EO many americans had expressed sympathy with the cause of the transvaal adding that he was not surprised to learn this as fie had expected all along that the freedom loving citizens of the american republic would stand by the boers in the struggle to de tend the liberty they had previously won for themselves during the run through the rural districts the train passed groups of peasantry who waved handkerchiefs ind hats and cheered at one point women had climbed the trees arl clinging to the branches with one hand they waved handkerchiefs with the other at several points infantrymen and cavalrymen on toot drew up near the roadside whirled their hats around their heads ad gave the military salute |