THE CASE OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS.
PUBLIC DEGRADATION. Vi Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.— Paris, January 5. Captain Dreyfus sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of selling military plans to foreign Powers, was to-day degraded at the military school in the presence of 5000 troops, when his sword was broken and his epaulets torn off. He cried, " Long live France; I am innocent." The mob outside howled, calling him a Jew and a coward. The crowd furiously cried, " Death to fyjhe German."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9712, 7 January 1895, Page 5
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80THE CASE OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9712, 7 January 1895, Page 5
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