DREYFUS DRIVEN TO RESIGN.
Major Alfred Dreyfus has sent iv his papers, aud is no longer in the French Army.
His resignation passed almost unnoticed in Paris, for, by the Major's wish, aud by that of the Minister of War (General Picquart), no special notice of it was sent out to the newspapers.
Major Dreyfus' health has been bad for some time, but the real reason for his retirement is the fact that, in spite of his acquittal by the highest Court in France, his brother officers refused to have anything to do with him, and made his life a burden.
At first Major Dreyfus absolutely refused to notice the moral quarantine in which he was placed, but eventually it told upon. him. His friends, M, Joseph Reinach and General Picquart, were both of them certain that it was best, for mauy reasons, that the Major should send in his papers; but they had the greatest difficulty in persuading him to do so. It is an open secret that he would have continued to refuse had not his wife feared that his health would breakdown altogether, aud joined her persuasion to that of M. Reinach and the Major's other friends.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8942, 17 December 1907, Page 6
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