The Dreyfus Scandal in France
Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Paris, December 6. General Billot, French Minister of War, made a statement in tbe Chamber with reference to the Capt. Dreyfus' case. He caid he was fairly tried and condemned. In his soul and conscience, as a soldier and chief of the army at the time, be said be regarded the sentence as a just one. He announced an inquiry bad been ordered into the charges made by Dreyfus' brother against Count Esterhazy, Commandant of Artillery, who be declared to have been concerned in the authorship of the incriminating document produced at tbe trial.
The Chamber by a majority of 172 approved of tbe statement of tbe Minister of war.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 134, 6 December 1897, Page 2
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