DOCUMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11396, 13 April 1899, Page 3

DOCUMENTS.

, The Bordereau —The document on which Dreyfus .was said to have been condemned. Now generally believed to have been forged by Esterhazy;: and, in any case, regarded by most unprejudiced people as ridiculously insufficient to prove Dreyfus guilty. Dossiers —There is a kind of public dossier —namely, the bordereau. Next there is the judicial dossier, containing, all that could, tend to justify the condemnation of Dreyfus, including forgeries like Henry's fabrication, which were shown to the court-martial in its retiring room.' Then there is an ultra-secret dossier, known only to the six Ministers for War,' to the Prime Ministers Dupuy and Meline, and perhaps Brisson, and to Presidents Casimir-Peiier" and Faure. This ultra-secret dossier-is believed to contain proofs, without naming individuals, of attempts; made by Russia to procure plans of French quick-firing cannon by secret agents, who sought to form relations with the French Army Staff. MM. Meline, de Freycinet, and Dupuy have said that the ultra-secret dossier cannot be published.

Materia: before the Court:of Cassation— (1) Dossier of the prosecution of Dreyfus_ in ccurt-mai-i-l; (2) dossier of the prosecution of Esterhazy in court-martial; • (3) dossier of the inquiry, mode on the complaint of Colonel Picquart into the case of Esterhazy and the woman Pays, accused of forgery and the use of forged documents; (4) dossier of the inquiry entered into against a person unknown on the complaint for forgery put in by Mme. de Bo.lan.y; (5) dossier relative to the arrest and suicide of Colonel Henry; (6) two reports relative to the-'confessions said to have been made by Dreyfus to Captain Lebrun-Renault; (7) three letters of Colonel Picquart to the Minister of. Justice under daces the 6th, I4th,

.-■nd 15th September, 1898; (8) the letter of Esterhazy date tho 14th September,-1898; (9) several letters and notes exchanged between the Minister for War and the' Minister for Justice, and divers other documents; and (10) the official report "of the 1394 court-martial. Tho "Petit Bleu"—A telegraphic card which purported to show suspicious relations between Esterhazy and the authorities of a foreign Power. Its existence was known to the French General Staff long before it was known to the publi-. Secret Documents —M. Demange, counsel for Dreyfus, has written: " Dreyfus never knew that there were secret documents. Like me,-he,has never known of anything but the bordereau. I did not know till long after my client was on the Ile dv Diable of the existence aiid.communication to the court-mar-tial of -ecret documents."