The Anaconda Standard

PARIS IN A TURMOIL.

The Dreyfus Case Continues to Agitate the Populace.

New York, Oct. 3.—A dispatch to the Herald from Paris says: Revisionists and anti-revisionists seem to be spoiling for a fight. Captain Dreyfus, whether guilty or innocent, has certainly caused a veritable cyclone of passion to be let loose. Paris was in a turmoil all Sunday. Crowds, scuffle, uproar and arrests was the programme of the last 12 hours. At this moment the mounted republican guards are patrolling certain parts of the city, and all of the police are on the alert. About a score of people are said to have been seriously wounded in the various free fights which have broken the monotony of the Parisian Sunday.

In one quarter alone over 40 arrests have been made. Of these 13 have been kept and the others liberated. Among the latter is Francis De Presenze, one of the first authorities on organization of politics in France. With him were arrested M. Ernest Vaughn, director of the Aurore, and M. Morhardt of the Temps editorial staff. All three were to have addressed a meeting in favor of revision in the Dreyfus case. This manifestation was announced to be held in the Salle Wagram. M. Paul de Reloude, the French patriotic specialist, had declared he was going to turn up at the meeting with a strong contingent of 'true Frenchmen,' and naturally at this the anti-revisionist proprietor of the Salle Wagram grew alarmed and called on the police to keep both camps out of the hall. When M. de Presenze and his colleagues arrived at the meeting place they found it shut and surrounded by a strong cordon of police, busily engaged in keeping back a crowd variously estimated at numbering from 12,000 to 20,000 persons.

In spite of the protests of M. de Presenze's party, who had paid the rent of the hall, the police refused admission to any one. Arguments and expostulation were both unavailing, as the brigadier of police remained inexorable. The crowd, however, had grown impatient or bolder, for it finally broke through the ring of police. From crushing to giving blows was but a step, and many took it. The police agents returned them with interest in the shape of arrests. At once the fight became general. The police made a charge and drove the crowd back to the Place des Ternes. Blood flowed in abundance from noses, and in the middle of the riot the three organizers of the meeting were arrested by order of M. Bouter, the police division commissary, and led off to the station. They there found company enough and to spare, almost all bearing the marks of having been handled with anything but care.