The Dreyfus Case.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 2

The Dreyfus Case.

The Socialists held an indignation meeting after the verdict in the Dreyfus case was announced. M. Demange, counsel for Dreyfus delivered a magnificent address, appealing to God to enlighten the consciences of the judges and the nation. The address lasted 9 hours. The Court deliberated 4£ hours. M. Demange sobbed bitterly svhbn the verdict was announced. Dreyfus has lodged an appealThe Republican senator at Greronde and leading lawyers and professors have presented him with an address promising never to abandon bim. France is singularly quiet. The Nationalist and anti-Semitic press is triumphant, bub the Revisionist press is confident the Court of Cassation will reverse the verdict. A feeling of resentment exists in Berlin at the Emperor having been ignored in connection with the Dreyfus trial. The Americans threaten to boycott the Paris Exhibition, so deep is their disgust at the outcome of the Dreyfus trial. London, too, is indignantly shocked. The 'Time*' considers it the most appalling prosti tution of justice the modern world has witnesse'l. Strong pulpit references were made in St. Paul's and many churches to the verdict. British and American newspaper* denounce it as a cowardly untenable action. Tne feeling in America is especially bitter. German papers declare that the decision has raised a barrier between France and the rest of the world. Esterhazy declares fche result of the trial was prearranged, and that the verdict was given with the object of enabling Dreyfus to obtain his release, as his imprisonment on Devils Island was equivalent to a decade of detention in a fortress. Some German organs express the opinion that ii Dreyfus is guilty his guilt must relate to transactions with Russia. A correspondent of a Hamburg paper asks : " Why was Baron Fredericks (the Russian military attache in Paris) recalled, and why did M. Delcasse recently journey to St. Petersburg ?" A great American and Continental movement is afoot to boycott the Paris Exhibition. Several British exhibitors have withdrawn, and one British Commissioner has resigned. Italian and Austrian Journals regard the Paris Exhibition as doomed. The ' Novoe Vremya ' applauded the French army's victory, but the moat educated Russians deplore the result. The ' Cologne Gazette ' says that the Emperor of Germany's decisive declaration that Dreyfus is innocent ought to have convinced any unprejudiced judge. Chicago manufacturers have dismissed French operatives.