CABLE NOTES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 September 1899, Page 20

CABLE NOTES.

THE DREYFUS CASE.

THE following is the substance of the latest cable messages :—: — Contrary to expectation outside of France, the Renne& courtmartial has, hy five votes to two, declared Dreyfus guil y, and he has been sentenced to ten years' detention in a fortress. The French people were eager for the verdict, but there was no disturbance. Immediately on the result of the trial becoming known in Germany, the Emperor ordered the Official Gazette to reiterate that Germany had no relations directly or indirectly with Dreyfus. The Alsations declare that the verdict will clinch their loyalty to Germany. The verdict was received with feelings of indignation outside of France. The London newspapers expressed themselves shocked ; the Americans threaten to boycott the Paris Exhibition, the feeling in the United States being especially bitter, while the German newspapers say that the decision has raised a barrier between France and the rest of the world. Members of both Houses of the New Zealand Parliament have forwarded the following cable to Madame Dreyfus in Paris : — 1 Deepest sympathy from members of New Zealand Parliament.' As Dreyfus has been convicted under extenuating circumstances, he will not suffer the degradation to which he was subjected after the first trial, and will not be sent back to Devil's Island.