A Military Officer Disgraced.
(Per Press Association.) Paris, January 5. Captain Drefus has been sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of selling military plans to Foreign Powers, and he was degraded at the Military School to day in the presence of 5000 troops, when his sword was broken and bis epaulettes torn off. He cried " Long live France. lam innocent." The mob outside howled calling him a Jew and a coward. Captain Albert Drefus is of Jewish - Alsatian extraction. He was born in 1859 at Mulhouse, where his brothers have a large cotton-spinning factory. He had been a clerk in the first bureau of the general staff. This office contains the only really secret documents of the War Office, such as the mobilisation arrangements, and the details for the despatch and concentration of troops in the eyent of war. Five years ago he married the daughter of M. Hadamard, a diamond merchant.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1895, Page 2
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153A Military Officer Disgraced. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1895, Page 2
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