GENERAL BOULANGER’S DEFENCE.
Paris, Angnst 9. General Boulanger’s manifesto relates some startling incidents which occurred daring his term of office as Minister of War. He asserts that he was tally justified in incurring the large expenditure in the spring of 1887 when the Schnsebell incident created such a sensation. He maintains that France and Germany were then never nearer war, He then proceeds to describe how the authorities discovered that an attache at the German Embassay in Paris was conducting a vast system of espionage, especially over the Foreign Office, and of the efforts made to discover the place in which the attache secreted the documents before forwarding them to Germany, and how at a favorable opportunity the documents were abstracted, copied, And replaced during a single night. The information thus obtained induced the French authorities to alter their plans of operations, and by this means to checkmate the enemy. The discovery of this espionage led the French Government to pass a law to punish spies. The manifesto created an immense sensation,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1931, 17 August 1889, Page 1
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172GENERAL BOULANGER’S DEFENCE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1931, 17 August 1889, Page 1
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