THE DREYFUS CASE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10450, 14 September 1899, Page 5

THE DREYFUS CASE.

M. ZOLA'S LETTER.

A POWERFUL APPEAL TO FRANCE

United Preu Aesooi»tion—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, September 12. M. Zola describes the Reooes verdict as a moral Sedan. M. 'Labori declares that the truth was told at the Zola trial in November. September 13. Zola's thrilling appeal to France contains passages of passionate invective. He denounces the trial as an execrable -monument of 'human infamy, and declares that foreign Powers possess proof of the baseness of Tour Generals. The honour of France must !■■ satisfied prior to the Exhibition. LONDON, September 12. "The Times" states tfoat the Zola, letter came as a thunderclap. Doubtless he means that Germany could publish: the bordereau documents, showing their origin and clearing Drevfug. .

(FHES3 ASSOCIATION- TKLTGRAUS.) WELLINGTON, September 13. The cable message to Madame Dreyfus, expressing the sympathy of Parliament', was signed by every member of the House except the Premier, Messrs Cadman, and HallJones, Captain Russell, and Mr Roileston. AUCKLAND, September 13. .An incident which occurred at a performance by the Gaiety Company last, night, tended to show the great interest taken locally in the condemnation of Dreyfus. A tableau is presented entitled "Britannia's Bulwarks," wherein the company are grouped around the British and American flags, and a British man-of-war ie seen approaching in the distance, from which a volley is fired. At this point a member of the company, attireu as Brother Jonathan, takes a "commanding position in the tableau, and dramatically tears the tri-coloured French flag into tatters. There was a storm of applause as the curtain dropped on the unique spectacle.