THE DREYFUS CASE

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 346, 27 September 1898, Page 2

THE DREYFUS CASE

CONCOCTION OF EVIDENCE. EXCITEMENT IN PARIS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT). Paris, September 24. TlliiKE is much popular enthusiasm in the army at the prosecution of Colonel Picquart. A preat ovation was accorded to General Merciar, of the 4th Army Corps. The Temps states that M. Zurlinden outwitted the Cabinet and obtained the signature of General Chamdine, who succeeded him as Minister for War, for the prosecution of Colonel Picquart bv a trick. M. Eugene Clemenceau, writing in the Aurore, has declared that the military casto which has been seizing France ever since the Revolution is so dangerous that a crisis has occurred. Madame Parlmer, wife of a deputy whom the journal La Lanterne attacked in connection with the Dreyfus case, failing to find the proprietor and the editor", shot the sub-editor thrice because the paper assailed her daughter. M. Zurlinden, as Military Governor at Paris, decided to prosecute Picquart after the Minister had refused him that authority when he was Minister for "War. Paris is in a ferment of excitement. London, September 25. The Observer states that Esterhazy declares that he wrote the bordereau at the request of Colonel Sandherr, one of the members of the courtmartial which tried Dreyfus and has since died. It was intended to constitute the material proof of Dreyfus' guilt, the Military Intelligence Department merely possessing moral proof against Dreyfus. He obeyed Sandherr's order without the slightest hesitation. He realised it was a forgery through the French agents at the Germany Agency. The bordereau appeared to emanate thence. (Received Septemher 26, 3.10 p.m.). Raris, September 25. M. Parlmer, husband of the lady who shot the sub - editor of La Lanterne, has challenged M. Millar and another deputy. The Judicial Commission, appointed by the Cabinet, to consider the reopening of the Dreyfus case, is equally divided for and against a new trial. The dissenters hold to the legal contention that the warrant for reopening had not been fulfilled. Berlin, September 25. The National Zeituug says that there was no concealment of the fact that Esterhazy was a German spy.