Sunday, 02 December 1900
Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal) went into exile to Europe during the Anglo Boer War in September 1900. He received a rapturous welcome in Marseille on 22 November—60,000 people turned out to see him disembark. He went on to an exuberant reception in Paris, then continued to Cologne, Germany on 2 December. Here the public greeted him with similar excitement, but Kaiser Wilhelm II refused to receive him in Berlin. Having apparently still harboured hopes of German assistance in the war, Kruger was deeply shocked. "The Kaiser has betrayed us", he said.
I held some gold Kruger rands the other day. They're a lot heavier than they look.
The gold was the reason the royal Anglos and Jews couldn't give them peace.
My pet is named Kruger in his honour.
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