FRENCH CRISIS.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 355, 18 October 1898, Page 3

FRENCH CRISIS.

REVOLUTION PROBABLE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— COPYRIGHT). Paris, October 14. A MILITARY conspiracy against the Government has been discovered in Paris. Several Paris newspapers announce that a prominent general was directing the conspiracy, and that it was intended to issue a pronunciamiento on Saturdav, when General Chanofe, Minister for War, was absent from the city. The Premier, M. Brisson, has, however, taken measures to thwart the conspiracy. Paris, October 15. A dozen ]ournals, mostly supporters of the Dreyfus trial revision, accuse Generals Pellieux, Boisdeffre, and Zurlinden of concocting a plot to overturn the Cabinet, and force M. Faure,' as President, to end the attacks made on the army and prevent the Dreyfus revision. It is alleged that a majority of the general stuff are implicated in the plot. The War Office denies the existence of a conspiracy. As clear proofs are not forthcoming, many are incredulous, but it is suspected the military are chafing under the civil law, and exasperated by the public criticism on the army. Forty thousand troops have been added to the garrison in Paris, nominally to coerce the strikers. A general order has been issued to the troops declaring that their duty demands" absolute obedience to the Republic. Paris, October 16. The Patriots' League was at the bottom of the conspiracy. The French Government were forewarned, but made it appear as if they did not suspect anything. They quietly transferred the suspected officers to the provinces, and summoned to Paris thousands of Normauby and Picardy gendarmes, who, beiug under the Minister of the Interior's orders, might have arrested high military officers without the necessity of declaring a state of siege.