LENOIR'S END

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 28, 28 October 1919, Page 5

LENOIR'S END

PARALYSED WITH FEAR, Paris, October 21. Lenoir .was shot at' Vincennes. He had to bo carried to execution. Doctors had previously examined him, and declared that his paralysis was only the paralysis of fear.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Lenoir was sentenced to death for having communicated with the enemy, but on the morning set down for his execution officials arrived and it_ was postponed. Later, he gave evideneo against Cailhuix. M. Joseph Caillaux, an ex-Premier of France, was arrested in Paris on January It of this year, and has been in custody ever fince. The ex-Minister had been the subject of suspicion almost throughout the war, but tho actual arrest was due to the dis. covery, as the result of American investigations, of grave incidents in connection with a visit he made to Argentina with his wife in 1915. The United representative at. Buenos Aires had discovered a whole series of negotiations carried on by Caillaux with tho German Foreign Office through tho medium of (lie notorious Count. Luxburg, whose chief claim to fame is his connection with the campaign of sinking neutral vessels "without leaving a trace," and who on that account was driven out of the Argentine. t The object of Caillaux's mnnceuvres in South America, was to engineer a peace with Germany, at any cost, so that international business could be resumed without delay. About tho time of the arrest, a fresh set of revelations was made as tho result of o?KJii!i!r a safe rented by Caillaux in an Italian bank, the Banea di Sconto, in Florence. In this was discovered an extraordinary set of documents connected with Oailaux's plans for his political operations after the war. when he expected a return to power. These included a. li=t of prospective Ministers and n "black list" of politicians and others who would have to be turned out of office, and another list of successors for these men. There were also important documents of a military character. Thn trial of Bnlo Pasha and other affairs of the kind showed that Cailhuix was connected with all tho chief pro-German ao fivities in France.]