CAILLAUX TREASON.
FURTHER DISCLOSURES. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 0.20 a.m., Jan. 18th. | LONDON, Jan. 17. Hie "Doily Chronicle's" Milan corlesporident says that the most important documents in M. Caillaux's safe cover a scheme for the utter overthrow of the Constitution of France by means of a coup d'etat. The scheme is drafted throughout in Caillaux's handwriting, «nd is arranged neatly in artioleo and paragraphs. The document bears Caillaux's final signature. Appended is a long list of Generals. Senators and Deputies, on whose active assistance Caillaux counted. General Sarrail was to assume the military dictatorship, of which the first act was to be the arrest of MM. Poincoire and Briand, and all others who hare figured prominently in the Government of France since the war. The French Chamber was forthwith to be dissolved, and the Senate reduced to Caillaux's followers, who would nominate a dictatorial commission tinder M. Caillaux and General Sarrail.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16446, 18 January 1918, Page 5
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153CAILLAUX TREASON. Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16446, 18 January 1918, Page 5
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