BREYFUS SCANDAL.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 487, 14 September 1899, Page 3

BREYFUS SCANDAL.

MORE FORGERY. APPEAL TO GERMANY. BOYCOTTING THE EXHIBITION. [united press association.] (by electric telegraph—copyright). Paris, September 12. M. Zola, in ' a letter published in L'Aurore, warns the Government to apply to Germany for the dochments enumerated in the bordereau, thus providing a fait nouveau, necessitating a revision of the Dreyfus trial. Otherwise the denouement will come like a thunderclap from abroad, unless justice is done. M. Labori declared the truth at Versailles in November, when Zola was tried.

M. Reiuach declares the pardon of the prisoner would be,accepted as a transitional measure, preparatory to formal rehabilitation.

M. Pressensc, writing in L'Aurore, contends that the omission to define the period of police surveillance is a fatal flaw in the verdict.

Esterhazy declares that the result of the Court-martial was prearranged, enabling Dreyfus to claim the five years spent »n Devil's Island as equivalent to 10 years' detention in a fortress, and thus he will be able to obtain his release.

London, September 12. French nationalist papers make onslaughts upon M. Loubet, the President, and M. Waldeck Rousseau, the Premier for abandoning General de Negrier, Colonial Marchand, General Roget and others, in favour of a traitor. Some German organs express the opiniou that if Dreyfus is guilty his guilt must relate to transactions with Russia.

The correspondent of a Hamburg paper asks why it was that Baron Fredericks and the Russian military attaches at Paris were recalled, and why did M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, recently journey to St. Petersburg. Several Italians and Austrians regard the Paris Exhibition as doomed. The Daily News states that General Mercier showed the judges secret forged documents, implicating the Emperor of Germany. The Temps and Debata urge pardon in the intereat of pacification. A great American and Continental movement is afoot to boycott the Paris Exhibition. Several British exhibits have been withdrawn, and one British Commissioner has resigned. The Novoe Vremya applauds the French army's victory, but most educated Russians deplore the result. The Cologne Gazette says that the Emperor of Germany's decisive declaration that Dreyfus is innocent ought to have conrinced any unprejudiced judge. Mobs at Naples and Vienna threatened the French Consulates. Chicago manufacturers have dismissed French operatives. Rome, September 11. The police prevented an attack on the French Con&ulate at Milan. Vienna, September 11. An attaek was made on the French Consulate at Buda Pesth, but the police suppressed it. CABLE OF SYMPATHY. (BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION). Wellington, Last Night. A cable to Madame Dreyfus, expressing sympathy, was signed by every member of the House, except the Premier, Messrs Cadman, Hall-Jones, Captain Russell and Mr Rolleston. Mr Lawry has given notice to ask in the House of Representatives if the Government had received any expression of indignation from the people of New Zealand relative to the sentence passed upon Dreyfus.