Présentation de l'éditeur
The Havas Agency reports :M arseilles, May i8. This afternoon at 4o clock St. Magloire set foot in France. It was anticipated that the return of the wellknown traveller would attract vast numbers of spectators, but no one foresaw that the event would produce such a tumultuous demonstration. The local papers had annoimced the time of his arrival, and long before the Plata had made port a huge crowd collected on the platform of the Harbour Station, and in the neighbouring streets. The police, surprised by these unexpected throngs, promptly threw a cordon round the landing stage. Neither the Prefect nor the Bishop was represented :but a number of priests and missionaries, who have recently returned from A frica, were to be seen in the crowd. Directly the gangway was lowered, the onlookers rushed to the landing stage, and burst right through the cordon. For some moments there was pandemonium. The men shouted and cheered St. Magloire, while the women threw flowers and kisses. The saint was soon recognised, thanks to a photograph which had already made his features familiar. The crowd wanted to carry him in triumph, but the explorer, who has retained all his youthful strength in spite of his sixty years, valiantly resisted the attempt. Escorted by over five thousand people, he had no easy task in reaching his hotel. Traffic had to be held up all along the route, for the human wave surged over the Quai La Joliette and the Rue de la Republique.
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