THE DREYFUS CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7688, 24 April 1903, Page 2

THE DREYFUS CASE.

-♦-; A REQUEST BY DREYFUS. United Press Assecia,ii<m— By Edectji* Telegraph— Copyright. ' (Received April 24, 9.6 a.m.) PARISi April 23. Dreyfus has addressed- a. letter to General Andre, Minister of War, asking that an in* quiry should be held in comnection with th« letter attributed to the Kaiser, and other documents. Dreyfus emphasises that the revelations recently mad* h 7 Lieutenant Helmut!, will prove that the evidence- given at the Rennes trial by Czernuski constituted perjury. (The Dreyfus case was revived at tfce be* ginning of the present month by the production of a letter, dated August 31, 1898, writteni by General Pellieux to M. Cavaignac, Minister of War, asking to be Believe*! of his command, on the ground that his ■chiefs were making him act' on. forgeyies.. M. Jaures, who read the. letter in the Cham« ber of Deputies, urged that it implied fha moral complicity of the chiefs of the Army with Major Henry im the forgeries. The concealment jtt the letter aggravated, he said, th© significance of the forgeries, and permitted the forgers' - clique to, connect themselves and renew the campaign on> a basis of another forgery. , A letter in which the words "oette canaille" occurred wa* attributed' by M. Jaures to the German Emperor. "M. Jaures urged that an inquiry into General Pellieux's letter should be held. General Andre, Minister of . War, stated that the Government intended to facilitate a search for the truth. Investigatione by the Minister of War, had brought to- lighfl General Pellieux's letter, the text of which was identical with >M. -Jaures's statement. Magistrates would assist'' at the inquiry* The Chamber, by 250 votes to 75, carried a vote of confidence in the Government, together with a resolution to keep the Drey* fus affair within the judicial domain.. A few 1 days afterwards, at Germany's instance. Jessel H«lmuth, a lieutenant in the man Intelligence) Department, was arrested at San Remo, for selling- toFranoe plans of the German fortifications. The Paris journal, "Le Petit Bleu," thereupon alleged that before t&e Dreyfus trial at RennesLieutenant Helmutb. sold France the Austria© official list of international spies. Helmuth added Drayfus's/ name thereto, and this contributed to' the second condemnar> tion of Dreyfus.)