CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 31 August 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

France. Colonel Freystaette, one of the Court-martial of 1894, gave evidence at yesterday's sitting at Bennes. The witness deolared that a false version of the Panizzardi telegram was shown to the 1894 tribunal. This statement drew from General Mercier the exclamation, " That's a lie ! " The General finally oast the responsibility • in regard to the telegram upon the late Colonel Sandherr, who was head of the Intelligence Department of the War Office at the time. When General Mercier blamed Colonel Sandherr, Maifcre Labori exclaimed. " Sandherr I Henry ! All are dead ! And Dv Paty Clam h absent." Colonel Maurel, President of the first Court-martial, when confronted by Colonel Preyataette, was unable to deny that the Court-martial of 1894 had read the secret dossier. The evidence given at at Monday's sitting of the Court-martial was wholly directed to the question of the handwriting of the bordereau and other documents copcerned in the case. Some of the experts supported the theories on which M. Bertillon, chief

of the service for the identification of criminals, maintains the guilt of the prisoner. Others, again, gave evidence entirely destructive of the Bertillon conclusions. Mr Charavay, who at the 1894 trial gave evidence against Dreyfus, and afterwards changed his mind, now declared that the handwriting on the bordereau was that of Esterhazy.