THE DREYFUS CASE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7323, 26 September 1898, Page 1

THE DREYFUS CASE.

(By Elbotrio Telegraph—Oofybiget.) (per united press association) Received September 25, at 5 p.m. Paris, September 24. Plcquart is confined in the military prison in the Rue du Cerche Midi, Paris. He is not allowed t6 see his friends or lawyers. There is much enthusiasm in the army at the prosecution of Picquart. A great ovation was accorded General Mercier of the 4th Army Corps. Le Temps states that General Zurlinden outwitted the Cabinet, and obtained the signature of General Chanoine, who succeeded him as Minister of War, for the prosecution of Picquart by a trick. M. Clemenceaux, writing In L'Aurore, declares that the military caste is seizing France. Never since the revolution: has so dangerous a crisis occurred. Madame Parlmer, wife of a deputy whom the journal La Lanterne attacked in connection with the Dreyfus case, failing to' find the proprietor and editor, shob the sub-editor thrice because the paper assailed her daughter. Received September 36, at 0.40 a.m. London, September 25. The Observer states that Count Esterhazy declares he wrote the bordereau at the request of Colonel Sandherr, one of the members of the court-maitial which tried Dreyfus, and has since died. It was intended to constitute material proof of Dreyfus' guilt, the Military Intelligence Department merely possessing moral ■proof against Dreyfus. He obeyed Saridherr's order without the slightest hesitation. He realised it was a forgery through the French agents at the German Agency, and the bordereau appeared to emanate, from thence. Received September 26, at 8.50 a m. Paris, September 25. The Judicial Commission appointed by, the Cabinet to consider the re-openlng of Dreyfus' case was equally divided for and against a new trial. The dissenters hold that n® legal condition to warrant a reopening has been fulfilled.