THE DREYFUS SENSATION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1423, 8 June 1899, Page 25

THE DREYFUS SENSATION.

PARIS, Friday. It is stated io be certain that in case the Court of Cassation should decide that ex-Captain Dreyfus be tried again, the re-trial will not take place in Paris. Evreux, the capital of the Department of Eure, is mentioned as the probable place for the sitting of the tribunal. It is situated sixty-seven miles from Paris in a north-westerly direction. PARIS, Friday. De Paty du Clam has been arrested and lodged in C'herehe Midi prison in Paris. What he is charged with has not yet been announced. [Commandant Mercier de Paty du Clam was in the Bureau of the General Staff. He conducted cue preliminary investigations into the charge against Dreyfus. Somewhat eccentric, lie. wife, always seeing spies about.] PARIS, Saturday. Du Paty de Clam was arrested on a charge of complicity with Colonel Henry in the forgery of the bordereau. LONDON, Saturday. Commandant Esterhazy, in a signed interview in the “Times,” has confessed that he wrote the bordereau, hut at the late Colonel Sandherr’s instigation. In {his interview Commandant Esterhazy has denounced the General Staff as a pack of miserable scoundrels. Esterhazy also exhibited to the interviewer letters which were appeals for silence from friends of the parties. The Court of Cassation has quashed the first judgment in the Dreyfus trial, and has ordered a fresh court-martial to be held at Rennes to decide (1) if in 1894 Captain Dreyfus practised any machinations'; (2) if Captain Dreyfus communicated any information to a foreign Power, with a. view to inducing hostilities; (3) or furnished any documents enumerated in the famous bordereau. The court held that the secret documents communicated to the court-mar-tial, and containing the words “Canaille de D,” have since been regarded as inapplicable to Dreyfus, and constituted a new fact in tending to prove his innocence. The Court also held that the ana’yseof the writing by experts and of the paper by makers tended to show that Captain Dreyfus did not write the bordereau, while his alleged confession did not amount to an admission of guilt. The seizure of Esterhazy’s two letters written on paper resembling that on which the bordereau was written, together with a declaration that he never used such paper, influenced the Court to its decision. Esterhazy is not, however, named in the judgment. It was feared that the finding of the Court would lead to disturbances; but Paris is tranquil, and there is no excitement.

PARIS, Monday. Captain Dreyfus, who is still a prisoner on the He du Dial-la, off the coast of Cayenne, South America, has been informed of the judgment of the Court of Cassation. At once he cabled to his wife that ho welcomed tho hour when justice would be done, and would await his re-trial with confidence.

Captain Dreyfus will arrive at Brest on the 26 th instant. Most of the anti-revisionist organs bow to the judgment of the Court. Only three, including M. Rochefort’s and M. Drumont’s journals, are irreconcilable. M. do Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the London “Times,” states that the prosecution of General Mercier and others is necesary as a sequence to the judgment. The English newspapers rejoice that' the law of France is yet supreme. The German papers declare that falsehood and moral confusion have ended. _ The Russian journals acclaim France’s rehabilitation.