THE DREYFUS CASE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1404, 26 January 1899, Page 32

THE DREYFUS CASE.

Paris, January 19. Ex-Major Ester hazy, the chief accuser of ex-Captain Dreyfus—who has been in exile in England and Belgium for some time past, and whose evidence is desired by the Court of Cassation in regard to the charges against himself of having written the bordereau that incriminated Dreyfus, received the petit bleu from Colonel Schwartzkoppen that Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart is now charged with having forged, and also forged papers material to the inquiry—is now back in Paris. General Mercier, who was Minister of War at the tjme when Dreyfus was court-

martialled, has stated in an interview that if the Court of Cassation decides upon the revision of Dreyfus’ sentence the result will be violent disorder. He doubts if Dreyfus will bo allowed to return to France. Paris, London 20. The Chamber of Deputies eagerly rejected a motion to give priority to a proposal that the Dreyfus revision case bo heard by all the sections of the Court of Cassation sitting together, instead of by tho c.’iminal section of the Court, which now has it in hand. Paris, January 21. The Court of C tssation lias confronted several ex-Minis <*r» and Generals of tho Staff with their ju\ vious testimony in the Dreyfus case. Paris, January 22. The investigation by the Court of Cassation into tho Dreyfus case has led to the discovery of persistent treachery in the French War Office in 1894, the year of Dreyfus’ conviction, in which, however, that unhappy officer was in no way concerned. It is stated that the treason in question took the form of the delivery of documents to a foreign Power giving so much information as to tho plans ot France for the mobilisation of her forces in the event of war that it will probably be necessary to make a complete change in tho arrangements for such an emergency. The assertion frequently made that the German Emperor had sent letters to the French Government denying that Dreyfus had ever betrayed French military secrets to the German authorities was the subject of an interpellation in tin* Chamber of Depn ies. M. Delcasse, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in his reply, denied the existence of any letter relating to Dreyfus either from or to the Kaiser, genuine or forged.