THE FIGARO SENSATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 19 March 1914, Page 6

THE FIGARO SENSATION.

ITS POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association. J

(Received 10 a.m.) Paris, March 18,

The excitement has surpassed the Steinheil case and almost equals the Dreyfus incident. Public feeling is intensified by M. Caillaux’s report to rally the Raidcal forces riven by N. Briand, and M. Caillaux’s success in reigning by personal supremacy of the party. After the Congo disclosures M. Calmette’s articles were unequalled in bitterness since Zola’s “J’Accuse” revelations regarding the Pochette Case, which culminated in a sensation. When the tragedy was reported on the Boulevards, large and excited crowds paraded until early morning.

Many scuffles have occurred with the police. Tables and -chairs at cafes were broken. The police were assaulted in a series of demonstrations outside M. Caillaux’s house.

It is stated that Calmette showed a friend letters from the Foreign Office archives, proving M. Caillaux’s former secret correspondence with a Foreign Government concerning the Congo. M. Calmette had hitherto suppressed these lest they should lead to a diplomatic incident, but he always carried the letters in his pockethook. Madame Caillaux is confined in a large cell at St. Lazare and has a maid to dress her and wait at the table. A restaurant supplies the meals.