Astounding Revelations.
CAILLAUX PLANNED COUP D’ETAT. SARRAIL IS INVOLVED. t Auflt. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 12.35 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 17. The “Daily Chronicle’s” correspondent at Milan says the most important documents found in Caillaux’s safe cover a scheme for the utter overthrow of the constitution of France by means of a coup d’etat. The scheme is drafted throughout in Caillaux’s handwriting, and arranged neatly in articles and paragraphs, and bears his final signature. Appended is a long list of Generals, Senators, and Deputies on whose active assistance Caillaux counted.
General Sarrail was to assume the military dictatorship, of which the first act was to be the arrest of M. Poincare (President) and M. Briand (Prime Minister), and all others who have figured prominently in the government of France since the war began. The French Chamber of Deputies was forthwith to be dissolved and the Senate reduced to Caillaux supporters, who were to nominate a Dictatorial Commission under Caillaux and Sarrail.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13789, 18 January 1918, Page 5
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