BOULEVARDS PATROLLED

Press, Volume L, Issue 14921, 20 March 1914, Page 7

BOULEVARDS PATROLLED

CONFLICTS WITH THE POLICE

The police have seized a number of documents in M. Calmetto's office at the "Figaro." It is reported that they include M. Caillaux's private letters to his wife before marriage. M. Caillaux handed tho police a letter written by his wife which he found on the night of the tragedy, in which she says, "When you receive this I shall have executed justice." M. Labori, the famous advocate who defended Dreyfus, is to defend Madame Caillaux. Mounted police patrol the Grand Boulevard to prevent demonstrations. M. Rovoult succeeds M. Caillaux as Minister of Finance. The excitement over the tragedy and ie revelations and resignation surpasses that over the Steinheil case, and almost equals that during the Dreyfus affair. Public feeliug is intensified by M. Caillaux's efforts to rally tho Radical forces, riven by the success of M. Briand, and M. Caillaux's success in regaining personal supremacy of the party after the Congo disclosures. M. Calmette's articles in the "Figaro" were unequalled in bitterness since Zola's "J , accuse" of tho Dreyfus case. The revelations regarding the Rochctte case culminated in a sensation when tho tragedy was reported on the boulevards. Large and excited crowds paraded until the early hours of the morning. The "Action Francaise," a Royalist newspaper, summoned the Camelots Dv Roi to demonstrate against M. Caillaux, and many scuffllos occurred with the police. Tables and chairs at the cafes were broken, and the police were assaulted in a series of demonstrations outside M. Caillaux's house. The "Intransigeant" states that M. Calmette showed a friend letters from the Foreign Office archives proving M. Caillaux's former eecret correspondence with a foreign Government concerning the Congo. „ M. Calmette had hitherto suppressed these lest they should lead to a diplomatic incident, but he always carried tho letters in his pocket-book. In his last moments he frequently appealed to his friends to guard his pocket-book. Madame Caillaux is confined in a large cell at St. Lazare prison. She has a maid to dress her and wait at table, and a restaurant supplier her meals.