BY RUSSIA TO ROUMANIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 January 1918, Page 5

BY RUSSIA TO ROUMANIA.

CAILLAUX’S TREACHERY.

AMERICAN EVIDENCE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16

The Department of State has pubcorrespondence between Count von Bornstorff (ex-German Ambassador) and the Berlin Foreign Office, under date of February 4, 1915, showing that Caillaux was intimate with the German Ambassador in Buenos Ayres (Count von Luxburg), and advising the German Press not to praise Caillaux, but to treat him courteously. He also suggested that Caillaux should leave Buenos Ayres.

PLANNED TO MAKE PEACE

PARIS, January 16

Public excitement continues over the Caillaux case, though Caillaux’s political adherents are markedly quieter since his arrest, and many are showing a tendency to desert the ex-Pre-mier. The safe in Florence was discovered owing to the telegraph office receiving a message for transmission to Florence reading: C ‘l forbid the •safe being opened. Signed Eaynourd” The censor - who received the message knew that Caillaux travelled in Italy under, this name. He reported the fact the authorities, who requested Italian officials to open the safe. They found £20,000 sterling in gold, some beautiful jewels, and also a list of Civil servants to be dismissed if Cail-. laux returned to power, and a list of politicians *to Jbe frewarde\3. The papers showed that Caillaux intended to seize'power and impose peace after rapturing the alliance between France itaty, and Britain.

PLOT TO OVERTHROW THE CON-

STITUTION.

LONDON, Jan 17

The Daily Chronicle’s Milan correspondent states that most important documents were found in Caillaux’s safe. They cover a scheme for the utter overthrow of the constitution of France. The means for the coup d’etat are drafted throughout in Caillaux’s handwriting, and are arranged neatly in articles and paragraphs, which bear his final signature. Appended is a long list of generals, Senators Deputies, on whose active assistance Caillaux counted. General Sarrail was to assume the military dictatorship, of which the first act would be to arrest President PoinBriand and all others who have -’figured prominently in the Government of France since the war commenced. The French Chamber was to have been forthwith, dissolved, and the Senate reduced to Caillaux’s followers, who would nominate a dictatorial Commission under Caillaux and Sarrail.

CAXLLAUX’S modest request. Received 12.45, PARIS, January 17,

M. Caillaux ha demanded to be treated as a political prisoner, so as to be allowed an extra mattress, two blankets and a chair, also meals from a restaurant.

Russia Raising a Socialist Army.

Czar Rumoured to have Escaped.

Japanese Ships for Vladivostock.

The Caillaux Treason Exposures. ► .