France Acclaims Triennial Army.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 10, 1913:
Enthusiastic Demonstrations Against Socialists, Who Oppose It.
JAURES HOOTED AT NICE
Paris Students in Impressive Pilgrimage to Statue of the Lost Strassburg.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, March 9.— At a political meeting at Nice the Socialist Deputy Jaures, who is conducting a campaign against the reintroduction of the three years' military service plan, failed to get a hearing. The moment Jaures appeared on the platform he was greeted with hoots, hisses, and mingled cries of "Go back to Berlin!" "Long live France!" and "Long live the army!" Presently the audience began to sing the "Marseillaise."
    After vainly trying for an hour to make his speech, the Socialist leader left the hall. Thereupon a large section of the audience formed a procession and marched through the town, singing the "Marseillaise" and "The March of Sambre et Meuse." While Jaures was being hooted at Nice, the night tattoo in Paris, which to-night followed the Grand Boulevards and attracted large crowds, was also made the occasion of a demonstration against the Socialists. People walking behind the soldiers shouted: "Long live the three years' service!" "Down with Jaures!" and "Long live the army!" At the end of the tattoo the band played the "Marseillaise," which the crowd sang with bared heads. Afterward a body of people with a flag marched to the Elysee Palace, where they cheered President Poincare.
    This afternoon the annual manifestation before the Strassburg monument in the Place de la Concorde was attended by almost all the student groups and societies of the Latin Quarter. The organizers had sworn all the participants to maintain silence, and it was an impressive sight as the thousands marched past, uncovering as they reached the corner occupied by the Strassburg statue.
    The procession formed at 2 o'clock in front of the Sorbonne. It was headed by two students carrying the tricolor veiled with crepe and hung with a wreath of immortelles, also bound with crape and tied with a tricolor ribbon inscribed "To Alsace-Lorraine from the Paris Students." The procession was greeted sympathetically all along the route by the public, who saw in the young fellows the first of the new French triennial army.
    Among the many taxes suggested with which to meet the increased military expenditures is one on all foreign men servants in France. If these pay an annual tax of 125f. it is calculated that the sum thus raised will be $15,000,000.