France.

Manawatu Herald, 17 December 1898, Page 2

France.

Ex M j ir E<ternzyh, one of th* chief ac • nera of Dreyfus who his <>t Ute bt- n bmad'y accustfd, partly oo •10 a!!t-p \ confession of hi-? own, of h« for- ry of th* bordereau tha «?aa t-ls ■ Huhj^ct of thi charge at D'^yfus'i court mirtial trial, and who fin a he wns oa^hiertd fivm the army, h v been in exile, has offered to give ovidence before the Court of Cassation on condition that hs is granted safe-conduct. His objects, he states, are to defend his honour and that of his children, and of the late Colonel Honry — the officer who committed suicide in gaol (or, as has been alleged, was murdered), after having confessed to the forgery of a document bearing upon the case. It is stated in the " Daily News " that an organisation styling itself " The Laague of Patriots " coinknnplated making an attempt to overpower the escort which ha 3 been provided to protect ex Captain Dreyfus on his return to Paris at the end of January, and kidnap the prisoner. A membar of the League com municated tho facts of the deaign to the officers of one of the Army Corps, ona of whom conveyed tha information to M. de Freycinet, Minister for War, who arranged to dofeat the plot.