L’AFFAIRE DREYFUS

Evening Star, Issue 12866, 16 July 1906, Page 6

L’AFFAIRE DREYFUS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT. CONSPIRATORS TO BE PUNISHED. PARIS, July 15. The Chamber of Deputies, by 473 votes to 42, approved of Captain Dreyfus’s reinstatement, and by 477 votes to 27 approved of that of Colonel Picquart, but it rejected M. Pressure's motion for the dismissal of the officers who committed the forgeries which resulted in the conviction of Captain Dreyfus ami Colonel Picquart. The Chamber, by a large majority, also approved of a motion rendering homage to the authors of the Dreyfus revision trial, denouncing tho authors of the conspiracy, and expr rsiug confidence in the Government to execute the necessary penal measures.

By a sixfold majority, the Senate approved of the reinstatement of Captain Dreyfus and Colonel Picqnart. General Mercier declared that the judgment given by the Rennes court-martial was much more convincing than that of the Court of Cassation. A Senator thereupon ejaculated that General Mercier ought to replace Captain Dreyfns on Devil’s Island.— (Cheers.) [ln November. 1898, General Zurlinden, Military Governor of Paris, ordered Colonel Picquart to be tried by conrt-martial on charges of forgery, making use of a forged document, and having communicated documents affecting the defence of the territory or the security of the State. The Court of Cassation suspended the proceedings against Colonel Picquart, and in June, 1899, his release was ordered, and the civil charges against him struck out. He was in prison nearly a year. General Mercier, at the Rennes trial, in spite of the confessions and proofs of forgery and lying, stoutly maintained his belief in the guilt of Dreyfus, and justified the communication of secret documents (subsequently proved to be based on forgeries) to the first court-martial, who convicted Dreyfus, on the ground that the country was on the brink of war, and the contents of the documents had to be kept secret.] APOTHEOSIS OF ZOLA. PARIS. July 14. M. Emile Zola’s remains will b© transferred to the Pantheon. [lt was in 1897 that the late Emile Zola took up the cause of Dreyfus, startling vhe world witli his tremendous indictment of the men who had conspired to ruin the excaptain. For this he was prosecuted by order of the French Government, and after two trials was condemned to a year’s imprisonment and a fine of £ll2O. Zola left France quietly, and remained unknown in England until events had shaped themselves for his return. The happenings of 1899 more than justified the charges Zola had made, and nothing further was done towards his punishment.] A BLOW AND A DUEL.

PARIS, July IS. During the debate in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Sarrant (Under-Secretary for the Interior) smacked the face of M. Pugliesi Conti, one of the Nationalist deputies for Seine. A duel followed, in which M. Conti wounded M. Sarrant hi the Inng.