FRENCH SENSATION.

Mataura Ensign, 22 July 1914, Page 5

FRENCH SENSATION.

L'AFFAIRE CALMETTE.

EXCITEMENT IN PARIS,

BI BLECTEIO TELEQEAPH COPYHIQBT, TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. deceived July 22, S.IJO a.m. PARIS ,July 21.

There is a tremendous tumult around the Palais de Justice in connection with the Caillaux .trial. The President's table is littered with articles used in the crime, including the revolver and the blood-stained clothes of the victim.

Municipal guards and police are everywhere and numhers of detectives dressed as barristers sit with, members of the bar. One hundred and forty journalists are nresent.

j Madame Caillaux, who was stylishly I dressed and flushed with excitement, looked a dignified figure, of suffering. She replied to the quqestions l of the judge in a low and weary voice a.nd every now and again her eyes sought her husband in tlie well of the court. She frequently burst into tears as she told the story of her life, ending in the 'Figaro' campaign, which she said was implacable. In !)"> days the journal published KiS articles'and caricatures attacking her husband for using (she alleged) dishonorable means to achieve personal aims'.

'MASTERPIECE OF RHETORIC."

BI BMCTRIO TELDQEAPH _ COPIEIQHT.

I'KB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.

PAIUS, July 21. Madame Cailhmx's harangue -.jis a ma.sicrpioco of rhetoric. Her oratioh occupied 05 minutes. Hoi- manner was and her pleading skilful, t! theatrical. She told hew the can¥, ! <iH" against M. Caillaux had caused Ifcr^ l hear denunciations against her. Wher'.ver .she wont •'■■ lie found publications of'' l . o letter, and because it set forth intiniaf* f«inily relations it was used to ruir the''''" l ' l ' Radical Party and strike at all Rcpi!'lirnns through lier husband. Her daughter was also aimed at.

Madame sank back sobbing at the conclusion of her recital.

DISTINGUISHED WITNESSES,

Received July 22, 10.10 a.m. PARIS, July 21. 'M. Bourget ("the poet, criiie and novelist) gave ovideuee thai he believed M. Calmette did not intend to publish Madame CaiUnix's letters. He believed lie saw her in order to assure her that her name would not be brought into the campaign. 'M. Caillaux, in his evidence, gave Uie (1.-tailed story of- his married life.

A remarkable example of rapidity in 'KH.k-produetinn is offered by ihe'-ip-ivtirance „r "The t'aillanx Drama," l'y J(>hi. V Raphael estates the 'Sydne'y Daily 1 ekgraplr ~ M. Oiudon Cilmett'e was shot and killed on March l(i. 11-:- ;>i.il..:;r ei' this book declares that ii-" liolds no brief for Madame Cailhiux ■ JvlKMvas arrested, and -iodged in the St! -T-iV/,niy LWs.ol'i immediately after the sheeting on a charge of miirder. Mr apcael m-rely wishes to explain that •He ferocious attacks of certain Paris ■eiii-ials on Madane Caillaux are absolutely without justification. Tlm , )ook i:- an illm.Mnmin-g I'l-eii.-n legal Hid journalistic preeedure Apparently the vhole of the evidence is brought forward and discussed in the presy long befor- the trial, and the enti.'-c population of Pa.ris ranges itself on the side eitherof the prosecutioa. or the rivlemo. Mr t.ipiiael'appears ouite frankly for the (le.'ence. He eydai-s the intolerable injuries and insults to which Madame Caillaux had been subjected, and give* promiiro-ice to her decfaranou that she never intended to kill -M. Calmette— mt-relv to wound him.

It is all very Parisian, and Mr John V Raphael takes side nassionatolv in his In-ok. like ihe most, Parisian of tl'-> Parisians. Published hy Max unschen. Ltd.