Tlie attention of French military circles lias liecn directed attain to the condemnation of Captain 'Proust tor having sol<l important plans for the mobilisation of the French army in Switzerland just before the war. The fact that Proust served with distinction throughout the war convinced many of his friends that there was somethin"; mysterious behind tile discovert of a notebook left in Molginm hy tlio retreating Germans and which formed the chief exhibit in the recent court martial which found Proust guilty. It now seems possible that the army may he stirred hy a controversy almost as intense as the. famous Dreyfus ease. Proust’s lawyer is insisting fliat he is ready to prove in a new court martial that the captain is the victim of a revengeful German woman, who failed to induce hun to become a German spy.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 7
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