The Dreyfus Case.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9155, 27 September 1898, Page 2

The Dreyfus Case.

. - —«—_ THE PROSECUTION OF PICQtTART. A SUB EDITOR SHOT AT. Press Assoclatloit—EleetncTolegraph-Copyrlgbt. Pasts, September 24 v , Picquart. Is confined to the military prison in Rue Du Oerche, Midi Paris. He is not allowed to see his friends or lawyers. ;. There is much : popular enthusiasm in the army at the prosecution of Picquart. A great ovation was aocorded General Mercier, of the 4th army corps, Le Temps states that General Zurlinder outspirited the -Cabinet and obtained the signature of General Ohambdine, who succeeded him as Minister for War, for the proseoution of Picquort by a trick. Olemenceau, writing in the Aurore, declares that military caste has betm seizing France ever since the resolution and would be dangerous if a crisis occurred; ■ > Madame Parlmer, wife of a deputy whom the journal Zα, Zantimatt&<kk in connection with the Dreyfus case, failing to find ■ the proprietor and editor, shot the sub-editor thrice *> oause the paper assailed her daughter. September 25. The Judicial Commission appointed bytheOabinettocoDsiderthereopening of the Dreyfus case is equally divided for and against a new trial. The dissenters hold that the legal condi« tions of the warrant for reopening have not been fulfilled, Parlmer, husband of the lady who shot the sub-editor of U Zanterne, has challenged Miller and another deputy. Berne, September 25. The National Zeitimg says there is no concealment of the fact that Esterhnzy is a German spy, '■■•' ••• LojTDotf, September 25. The Observer states that Esterhazy declares that he wrote the Bordereau. Se was requested by Colonel Sandherr, one of the members of the Court Martial vrhioK tried Dreyfus, and who has since died, It was intended to constitute, material proof of Dreyfus' guilt, the Military Intelligence Dβpartment merely possessing moral proof against Dreyfus. He obeyed Sandherr'e orders without the slightest hesitation. It was realised that the dooument was a forgery through the French agents at. the German 'agency, The Borkrtav, appeared to emanate from there.