CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 29 August 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

— « France. The cleverness shown by Maitre Labori, leading oounael for Dreyfus it the Rennes Court-martial, has further discredited the prosecution. General Meroier admitted that he had no right to give formal orders for the submission of secret documents at the 1894 trial. He said he " the moral orders " in the matter. E*terhazy, writing from London gays — " If the Generals^make Dreyfus my accomplice, the present trial will collapse, and lead to the inevitable death of persons whom it ba3 not hitherto been desired to kill." A witness named Penont called at be Court martial repeated the hearsay atory that Dreyfu3's brothers •flfered the late Colonel Sandherr, who was head of the Sfcatistican Da* partment of the War Office in 1894 i Bum of 150,000 franca if he would bush the cage up. ! Maitre Deinange, hawever, read a '■ letter from Colonel Sandher which does not accord with the witness's : statement. Colonel Maurel, president of the 1894 Court-martial, reluctantly 1 admitted that he had received a ! letter from General Mercier through [ Dv Paty de Clam. | The witness add-?d that be and [ 'me of his colleagues decided upon r the dossier, and upon hearing M. i Bertillon's exposition on hand--1 writing. > General Mercier created a sensation by admitting that when the 1894 trial was in progress he withbe'd a : tnlfgram from Colonel Panizzirdi, [ the Italian militrry attache. . An attempt by General Mercier to : add to the do3sier (or official record) , of the Dreyfu* case a new com m*ntary by Dv Pity de Clam upon his investigation* Las b^en exposed , to the C iurt-mavtial at Rannas by [ Maitre Labori, senior counsel for the defence. General Mercier appeared to be [ cou fused when the failure of hi 3 I scheme was m ids clear. Maiam Libn'i has received a I letter threatening her husband, her children and het self with assassinaL tion. M. Gobsrfc, expsrt in handwriting • to the Court of Appeal and the Bank of France, gave the Court an '. amazing illustration in proof of [ Drpyfus'a innocence. F On the other hand, M. Bertil.'on, : fha chief of the service for thf " identification of criminals, occupied several hours in expounding from ; spfioimens of handwriting bis theory of the priponer's guilt.