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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 5

THE TRICK THAT PROCURED PICQUART'S PROSECUTION. AN OUTCRY AGAINST MILITARY DOMINATION. A JOURNALIST SHOT BY A WOMAN. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Pabis, 24Ui September. Le Temps, organ of the French Foreign Office, states that General Zurlinden outwitted the Cabinet, and obtained the signature of General Chavoine (who succeeded him as Minister of War) for the prosecution of Colonel Picquart by a trick. M. Clemenceau, ex-Minister, writing in the Aurore, a leading Opposition paper (in which M. Zola published the famous article which led to his prosecution), has declared that the military ca^te is seizing France, and never since the Revolution has so dangerous a crisis occurred. There is much enthusiasm in the army at the prosecution of Colonel Picquart for the disclosure of important State documents in connection with the Dreyfus case. A great ovation was accorded General Mercier, of the French Army Corps. Colonel I'ioquart is confined in the military prison in the Rue dv Cherche Midi, Paris, and he is not allowed to see his friends or lawyers. Madame Palmer, wife of a Deputy, whom the journal La Lanterne attacked in connection with the Dreyfus case, failing to find the proprietor and the editor, shot the sub-editor thrice, because the paper assailed her daughter.