One of the most reinarkthe able things about the Dreyfus pnuYFUS case — and one of the most case. disreputable, so far as the French people are concerned — is the violent opposition that has been offered to the revision of a sentence which all the world recognised as monstrously unjust. The opposition of the French Army authorities was easily understood. The officers engaged in one way and another on the court-martial had made a hideous mistake, and it became the duty of their comrades, according to their narrow conception of military honour, to deny its existence and to prevent its review. But from the public Press and other great powers in the State,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6340, 21 November 1898, Page 3
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112Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Star (Christchurch), Issue 6340, 21 November 1898, Page 3
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