ALLEGED TREASON.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16357, 31 October 1918, Page 9

ALLEGED TREASON.

THE CHABGES AGAINST CAILLAUX. HiIJAN- COCSr£r.EVEI,ATIOXS. _ ,_J N 2. Cable Aisoeiation.) XEW YORK, October 29. fount -Uinotto, who is interned in r5Sv, revealed an alleged plot to Germaujj Taillaux to po.ver and ob.eparau' kte.cn Franco mu? Germany, and then bring about an Sfaiwe between franco, Italy,andtho Central Powers in a war against EngMinotto' visited Count LuxfoWGerman .Minister in the ' Areentino, in Buenos Aires in tne suramer of 1915, and acted as agent beJZZ&ZSgESkS&Si S? widenco. of Caillaiis s compficity, v ra hceii to the .French. Eipr and 'will bo used against Caillans at hi 3 coming trial for high ST Minotto is a son-in-law ofLou's F Swift, the American millionaire j meat packer. A visit paid to Rome by M. Caillaux (ex-Premier of France, who is awaitiiw* trial for treason) in December, 1916* . statement that he had been with the "neutralist" party f nfjtaly Jith a view to the settlement o° 2Ss upon which Franco and Italy mi with Germany. The Sms were to include generous trcatof France, and ample compensa- ? ent r°l K at the expense of Austin. The conditions were that Germany should Balkan "IrtiS. M. Caita* wm said to have been contemplated by the Italian Government, this »eading to tfie uaiiaii f ro , n country. 'Ke fiSSLt Radical Party,of which M. CaiUaux had. previously been president, officially plated itself from his actionß at the toe.. Jn. Cuillaux's arrest m Paris on Janua y m 5 cSla(ix had ieenm w>mnmmcation with the. Berlin , e 6 tated Lansing's cablegram etateu &W American representative at 1 FordS astf SSL' ™iSSffi. Sth Subject Of concluding peaj* * i ? l 2SS ; wwSislSd as German MhiiS to Argentina after discovery j t tat he liad been sending, rf tho fact that ne i q at Kot A& dijatchc9 to tie Berlin Foreign Office mperti»? German Argentina merchant vessels.