A Stormy Scene

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 223, 20 March 1914, Page 5

A Stormy Scene

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ARISING OUT OF THE CALMETTE

MURDER.

SOME STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS^

3y Cable—Press Association—Copyright Paris, March 18.

Madame Caillaux had previously taken counsel with her friends, and finding she was unlikely to secure satisfaction by legal process, took the law into her own hands.

When M. Caillaux heard that the magistrate was going to detain his wife he said, "I regret that M. Calmette has been severely hurt, but cannot disapprove of her deeds."

Hundreds of students assembled at the Figaro office, and shouted, "Down with Caillaux, the robber!" The newspapers comment on the crime with almost indecent ferocity. For some its importance lies in sweeping M. Caillaux from power.

The debate in the Chamber of Deputies was the stormiest since hte Dreyfus affair.

M. de la Haye moved calling on the Government to dismiss the Procurator-' General, who yielded to M. Monis' pressure and allowed M. Rochette to ab-V, scond, thu6 preventing a scandal involving M. Caillaux. M. Barthou, late Premier, read a' document, and threatened its publication, which, he alleged, prompted Madame Caillaux to her deed. The document was the Public Prosecutor's protest against Ministerial pressure to obv tain immunity of M. Rochette. Its reading caused an immense sensation. ' M. Ceccaldi, a friend of M. CaillafasS 1 accused M. Barthou of being laux's assassin, inflamed by political, animosity. " i:w, r-'v-.r u M. Monis denied the Procurator's al-' legation, and demanded an enquiry 1 into' the history of the document, and ; how M. Barthou had abstracted it fram'rthe. archives. '-'• "'' ll

The motion was withdrawn in''f&vo'r of one ordering the prolongation pt-jthc Rochette Commission of ;ii The police seized documents at M. Calmette's office which are reported to include M. Caillaux's private letters., to his wife before their marriage..!.*; Ms Caillaux handed the police ' iT/teWer written%p his wife, which he foiind'lon. the night of the tragedy, :in. says, "When you receive this»'J; sh*M have executed justice." '"''■ : ' •<*"■ Maitre Labori will defend' Madame Caillaux. .. > : ■ ■■'* ~:■<■!:■

Mounted police patrol thc J,J '<9rftrid

Boulevard to prevent demonstrates,'"",. Mr. Revoult will succeed Mv^afljaux as Minister of Finance. ■'■■!' '..-.-.- ■

SOME UNTOLD SECRETS?-,J"';'

M. CAILLAUX'S HONOR. .IM.Py(JN|D.

A FORMER SCAND.4L REVIVED:'*

Paris, Marin *.

The excitement surpasses that ''cwfe'r ihe Steinhal case and almost/'eg.tials ;hat over the Dreyfus incident;. tji r:

Public feeling is intensified ty-M. Oaillaux's attempt to rally Hbc' ri ßadii!Jil forces riven by M. and" m. J laiix's success in regaining his personal supremacy in the parly after the.Cojigo disclosures. -., ; ; . M. Calmette's articles were . unequalled in bitterness since "•Zola's "J'accuse." The revelations regafding the Rochette case were the culmination of the sensation. When the tragedy was reported on the boulevards large and excited crowds paraded' until early in the morning. Action Francaise, a Royalist newspaper, summoned the Camelots -<lir Roi to demonstrate against M. Caillaux. Many scuffles occurred with the police. Tables and chairs 1 at cafes were, broken and the police assaulted in a series- of demonstrations outside M. CaillatiK's House.

L'lntransigeant states that M. . Qalmette showed a friend letters from-the Foreign Office archives, proving l ' l '-!!. Caillaux's former secret corresppnderiee with a foreign Government concerning the Congo. M. Calmette had hitherto suppressed these, lest they shoirld lead to a diplomatic incident, but' always carried the letters in his pocket-book. In his last moments he frequently. appealed to his friends to guard his pocket-book.

Madame Caillaux is confined in a large cell at St. Lazare prison?" ( ,§he has a maid to dress .her and a"'lsStijurant supplies her with meals;., f A GROWING CLAMOUR... |; TROOPS IS READINESS |

Received 19, 10 p.m. Paris, March 19.

The Radical Party is demoralised by the growing clamor for M. Mom's resignation.

The public are discussing why M. Fabre's (the Public Prosecutor's) letter was not submitted to the Rochette Commission. Why did M.M. Barthou and Briand keep the letter by them for three years without breathing a word to the Commission, and then finally hand it to M. Calmette as his deadliest weapon against M. Caillaux?

The Rochette Commission is now in vested with judicial powers, the first commission with such high powers during the third Republic. Owing to the unrest, troops are confined to the barracks in readiness for measures to be taken to guard M. Caillaux'a house, his wife's prison, and Parliament during the funeral on Friday.