MILITARY CONSPIRACY.
A military conspiracy against the Government has been discovered in Paris.
Several Paris newspapers announce thai; a prominent General was directing the conspiracy against the Government.
It was intended to issue a pro* nounoiamento on Saturday when General Ohavoine, Minister of War, would be absent from Paris.
The Premier (91. Bnsson) had taken measures to thwart the conspiracy.
A dozen journals, mostly supporters of the Dreyfus trial revision, accuse M. Pellieux, Generals Bois Deflfre and Zarlinden, Military Governor of Paris, with concooting a plot to overturn the Cabinet and retain M. Faure as President, and the attackß made on the army and prevent the Dreyfus revision.
It ia alleged that the majority of the general staff are implicated in the plot. The War Office denies the con spiracy, and as clear proofs are not forthcoming, many are incredulous. It is believed that the military i? chafing under the civil laws, and it is exasperated by the public critioism on the army.
About 40,000 troops are to be added to the garrisons in Paris, nominally to ooeroe the strikers, the general officers unanimously declaring that their duty demands absolute obedience to the Republic.
The Patriots' League was at the bottom of the conspiracy. The French Government, which was forewarned, made it appear as if it did not suspect anything, and quietly transferred the suspected officers to the provinoes, and sum* moned to Paris thousands of Nor* mandy and Picardy gendarmes who being under the Minister of the Interior's orders might have arrested the high military officers without a state of siege being declared.
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Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1898, Page 2
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264MILITARY CONSPIRACY. Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1898, Page 2
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