THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1905. THE SPY IN EXCELSIS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 40, 5 October 1905, Page 17

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1905. THE SPY IN EXCELSIS

#B@l * (j(?&MP OMI-: months ago we dealt \\ ith the ie\clavSSjli^ lions leading the system^ of espionage fij^|^A\ organised by the Freemasons in the army "e£^sSsL of the French Republic. In one short'year alone the chiefs of that dark-lantern fra<t7jf {%%. ternity, in collusion with their brethren of <$^*£ the War Office, issued no fewer than twelve thousand ' lettres de cachet,' gathered together from then uniformed spies, for the purpose of ostracising, banishing, depriving of due or merited promotion, or ' breaking ' all officers of the army, wo mja-tter how hig-h their qualifications may have been, if they, or any of their relatives, had dared to oommit theiluc.<i emne of assisting at iMass or practising in any way the lehgio'ii of their father, Ii is needless to point out. the outiaacous character of this invasion of an indefeasible personal right, Mis act of high treason against the best interests of the State, whose final levoi t ami last aignmcnl m the day of its ivcrd is its army This great Maso'ine scandal took hold of France and shook it trom end lo end. General Peigne, one of the meanest and mos.t active and ruffianly of the uniformed spies, was cashiered , in deference to the clamorous \oicc of outraged public o.pinio-n. His brethren of the War Office ha\e now reinstated him, and their action will, when Parliament assembles, result in

the reopening of the greatest military scatodal la history, and in tfoe publication of the further mass of documentary revelations that are in the hand of M* Cfuyot de Villeneuve. * But the scandal, like a temporarily closed leak in an unsound dam, has broken out in a fresh place. The ungentle land cowardly arts of the sneaik and spy have freou (officalally introduced into tihe teaching profession in lodge-ridden France. Here is* a translation of an official document addressed to an !< instituteur ' (male teachieir) amd recently published in photographic facsimile by the ' Echo de Paris ' :—

FRENCH REPUBLIC. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Sub-Prefecture of Confolens (Charente>., Office of the Sub-Prefect. W Confidential. Confolene, 1905.. REQUISITION. MonsieniT lnlnstituteur,—ll n lnstituteur,— l have tho honor to beg you to be good! eiiO'Uigh to bend me confidential information ■ on the 'antecedenits, conduct, morality, pecuniary pooi- 1 tion, family expenditure, and political attitude of M. Plaase to accept, M. lTn^tputeJur, |tho assurance of my respect. SUB-PREFECT-M. rinstifcuteur, ' This letter,' says tho ' Echo,' occupies half the sheet: the othe/c half is left blank for the teacher to fill in his reply.' Here is another French official scandal oi nq mean magnitude, llow is it that our secular papers— tlvat ' tore around ' like wounded sperms over the Dreyfusf case— have not uttered so much as a •whisper regard** ing! it ? They can procure— 'by cable, "tioO I—details1 — details regarding tho weri'oirs ilhroess of a steeplephfeset, or the death of a hound, or the matrimonial squabbles of a ballerina. But not one of them gave so much as a hint s.a 'to the conn'ectnon of the Or amd Orient with the amazing malpractices by which thousands of deserving officers were pemal'ised for their religion in the French army, on the secret and oftentimes malicious reports of Freemason s>p'ies. 'Are our secular newspapers, like the French War Office and courts of law, under the ' occult juriydict'i'Oii ' of the Grand Orient ?