CAILLAUX TRIAL.
SOME INTERESTING EVIDENCE. PARIS, April 2. Striking evidence was given yesterday at the trial of Caillaux by a leading accountant, who has been investigating the prisoner’s fortune. The witness declared that the methods by which Caillaux obtained his money were above suspicion. ■Another witness stated that Lipsseher bad been offered 30,000 francs by the French people to give false evidence. Deputy Dutreil recalled Caillaux’s private statement in October, 1917, when he expressed the opinion that France was ruined, and an early peace was desirable on the following terms. The restoration of Alsace and Lorraine; the provision of a common reparations fund to which all the belligerents would contribute ,the defeated nations contributing the largest share; the return of the German colonies, as it was not France’s but England’s interest to keep German terirtories for the purpose of •onducting an economic war after the war.
Several generals gave evidence as to Caillaux’s patriotism,
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1920, Page 3
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154CAILLAUX TRIAL. Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1920, Page 3
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