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HONG KONG "DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1935.
MARTYR OF DEVIL'S ISLAND
Case That Brought France
To Brink Of Revolution
i
er's hand, obviously in the expecta- tion that he would make his ac- easers a present of their case by committing suicide.
(Special Air Mail Service) London, July 18. The death of Alfred Dreyfus, re- calls one of the worst and most tonishing conspiracies of modern mes and one with most far- reaching consequences.
À JUDICIAL TRAVESTY The "trial" commenced at the From the date in October, 1894. Cherche-Midi Prison on Dec, 19, when the able young Jewish artil- 1894, and seven army officers, with- lery officer was arrested on al out an artillery man amongst them, charge of selling official secrets to were appointed judges. Against the Germans, to his release from "Devil's Island" five years later on a "pardon" almost as inex- plicable as the original charge, public opinion all over France was
the protests of Maitre Demange, the eminent counsel retained for the defence, it was held behind closed doors,
In order to discount his com-
criminating documents, this was adduced as testimony of his artful ness in having destroyed all proofs of his guilt.
In
this
|
greatest of "all the intrepid Coll Picquart
14
He came across a petit bleu," or unregistered telegram, from the German Attache, making a 16- quisition, un Major: Esterhazy, of the General Staff,- and revealing" clandestine correspondence of a suspicious kind. The moment thật] Plequart say this man's writing në identified it" with that of the tell- tale "bordereau"
At last, and in spite of official warnings which were hardly con- cealed threats, he armly anixed the guilt on the Hungarian.
By good fortune a photograph of the "bordereau" had remained with one of the writing experts consulted in 1894, and "One". Ane morning it made its appearance in the pages of the "Matin." The identity of the handwriting with that of Esterhazy could no longer be concerted. The question wils raised in the Chamber but with no
nouncing its confidence in the ad- ministration.
Plequart was packed of in 1897 to Tunis to take his stand with a garrison of sharp-shooters at a point of extreme remoteness and risk; but before he left Paris ne handed his papers over to a friend- ly lawyer. M. Leblois, to be used when occasiop demanded....
in a state of fever heat. During parative wealth and supply a mo- that fateful interval Ministrie tive for his accepting German gold, were wrecked through the nation-he was wrongly accused of gamb-more result than a resolution an- al fury and international indigna-ing: but the prosecution refused tlan the case aroused, and France to call any witnesses under this was brought to the brink of an read, affirming that "all gambiers other revolution. ¿
were llars." Again, when it was "L'Affaire Dreyfus" came at a urged that a search of the prison- troubled period for France. Thereer's premises had furnished no in- was public anger over the Panama scandals, furious tension between extreme Socialism on the one side and Clericalism on the other, a warrantable misgiving about" Ger-
and other ways, the many's intentlöns, · a feverish 'dis» | logical mind on which Frenchmen trust of all other nations, especial- pride themselves. went completely ly England, and resentment arising by the board. Finally, lest the from the collapse of the military prisoner might slip through his adventurer, Gen. Boulanger.
fingers, Gen. Mercier summoned Paty de Clam, and sent him to the seven judges with a secret "dossier" to be read in conâdence and re- turned forthwith..
It was at this juncture (1894) that a leakage was reported in the Intelligence Department of the General Staff, and a scapegoat was found in Captain Dreyfus, an artil- lery officer, 32 years of age, who had shone at the Ecole de Querre, and "warrantably expected high | promotion.
been
This dossier contained four do-
cuments, and, as was shown in course of time, these were false or irrelevant.
More support came for the Re- visionists whose principal cham- pion with pen and ink was Zola, whose "startling philippics. “J'Ac- cuse" led to his arrest for libelling the Ariministrator. ponents now adopted more active tactics Col. Henry slahdered him,
Plequart's op-
but was himself wounded in the Esterhazy duel" which followed. also sent a challenge, but this was declined with the significant words that the challenger "belonged to: the Justice of the country.”
After Zola's trial Picquart was struck off the army list and his lawyer friend Leblots suspended.
"M. Hanotaux, the Foreign Minis- Dreyfus had long
con- ter, with the authority of the Paris spicuous because of his diligence. Embassies, warned his colleagues merit, and thirst for knowledge. at the War Office that it was trad- | SUICIDE OF TWO CONSPIRATORŠ
But the real cue for denouncinging on false evidence, but France him was the circumstances of his and its Press were so drugged with
being a Jew he was one of 500 perjury and panic that nothing with French Army commissions),
would satisfy them but human sacrifice.
HOW' EVIDENCE WAS PRODUCED
The Judges: themselves were The Minister for War, under the assailed
with vituperation AS presidency of M Casimir Perier.traltors to France," like every- was General Mercier. Their in- body else, if they-wavered or own- telligence chief, Col; Sandherr, had
ed Lo a single misgiving. When as his assistant one Col. Henry, and they boggled at the "bordereau" under him again was Major Ester- they were told to use magnifying hazy, a Hungarian of notable des glasses, and this sufficed. cent, profligate connections, and unprincipled ways.
Degraded on the Champs de Mars, he was sentenced to trans- Just when the German Embassyportation for life with solitary con- in Paris was being jealously watch-fnement in a fortress, which was ed a letter, or "bordereau," reach-changed as a result of special legis- cd Colonel Schwarzkoppen, thelation to the Iles du Salut, an German Military Attaché, enum- archipelago off the coast of French erating certain confidential docu- Guiana. ments which the writer had found
it "dificult to 'procure.'
*
LIFE ON DEVIL'S ISLAND
Then came a startling episode. one of the forgers employed in the case was a man named Lemercier- Picard, and on the morning. of March 3, 1898, he was found hang- hed in his room, with all his papers
missing.
Then came another blow for the
defence. «Col Henry was arrested for offences that could no longer
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NEW YORK INCIDENT
Washington, July 31.
CIVIL AVIATION
The German Government has To Promote Flying
formally protested to the United Statea against the demonstrations which occurred in New York oo Saturday prior to the sabing "of
the German liner Bremen.
Hudson River.
Bremen
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be concealed, and, after protesting that his forgeries had been all for the honour of France," he was lodged in a cell at Mont Valerien, where he committed suicide by cutting his throat.
To recount the story of the years A thousand Communists, it will listed to advise the Secretary for that brought success to the Re-be recalled, clashed with the police Aran measures connected with visionists would be a history of fin when making a demonstration in the promotion of civil aviation. de siècle French politics at their the course of which three men
One, under the chairmanship worst. Ministry succeeded Minis-reached the bow of the try and scandal followed scandal and ripped the German nag from of Sir Warren Fisher, Secretary consider The Attaché tore the bordereau The smallest islet of the group with amazing fertility. Meanwhile the pole. throwing it into the to the Treasury, is to
questions affecting international. in shreds, but they were saved of three was formerly a leper the Socialist régime Inevitably. from the waste-basket by the Em- colony, and those who knew it, re-supervened,
It is understood that in its pro- air communication, while bassy charwoman, Mme. Bastian Jecting the ironie name of an "isle President Loubet, who succeeded test the German Government does other, with Bir Henry Maybury. (who was secretly in French off of health," christened it "Devil's M. Felix Faure in 1899, was the not demand an apology for the well-known traffic authoritynd clal pay), and pieced together for Island." On this tract of desolate official head of the Republican incident, for which regret has al- member of the London Passenger, examination at the Ministry of rock and scrub, sand and swamp. group who stood for Revision, and ready been expreseed, but the Transport Board, as Chairman, is A handwriting expert, M. there was built for the prisoner a Gen. Gallihet publicly proposed to Note requests the State Depart-to report on civil aviation at Bertillon, was brought forward to hut measuring 12 feet each way, bave the sentence on Dreyfus re- ment to do Its utmost to ensure home. It will take into account the prosecution and punishment the requirements of the Post Office Identify the writing with that of with an exercise yard in propor-mitted. This was not to the om-
for air mails and the relation be- of those responsible clal taste, but it was agreed to the man "suspected," and though tion.
Reuter,
tween awlation and other forms of other experts contradicted him
bring the prisoner back from
fransport. completely, his view was accepted
"Devil's Island: for a new court- and allowed to hold the field.
martial.
A LETTER TRAP W.
The method of his accusation
War,
and arrest was an extraordinary one. On Saturday, Oct. 13, 1894 [Dreyfus received a summons to the War Department ostensibly for a 26 cts. general inspection, though he was $21 ordered to wear multi, Comman- dant Paty de Clam, himself in uni- farm, received him,
$3 1470
13
56 ots;
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SUBMARINE LOST IN.
COLLISION
Moscow, July 31.
A Russian submarine with a crew of 55 Naval School students. was rammed and sunk during the Baltic Fleet's exercises in the Gulf of Finland to-day.
All the lives aboard the sub- marine were lost. Reuter
The six guards were strictly for bidden to speak to him, and one was posted at his door night and day. He could' write to no one but
his family, and during the greater part of the time his letters, like those from his wife, were copied and the originals destroyed.
The courage with which Dreyfus sustained his five years, of suffer- ing is a matter of history. The conditions under which be had to The island live were execrable.
was infested with mosquitoes, ver- min, ants, and spider crabs of a venomous bite, and from all the evils of close confinement on an island with a humid climate he was given no alleviation.
If the encounter was puzzling. the subsequent procedure Wad stranger still. Eaty de Clam said to him in a trembling voice: The General is coming. Whilst you are waiting, as I have a letter to write. The canned bacon which was his and I have a sore finger, will you only form of meat was uneatable, Kindly write it for me?" Dreyfus and had to be thrown away; the readily asserted and Paty sat close rice was filthy and offensive, and by and watched him keenly while shared the same fate, for he had he wrote. The letter thus dictated contained a number of meat-tins; and the raw coffee ber- to do his own cooking in rusty sentences which had no meaning ries given him were useless, for he for the bewildered man, but were to had no means of roasting or pre-
Once more Dreyfus stood before
PRESS SATISFIED
Berlin, July 31. Batisfaction is expressed "by the
It is understood that a survey by the Air Ministry of the lines his judges at Rennes. In spite of Press here at the assurances given develop has been in progress for on which home air services might the ringing eloquence and courage by the authorities in New York, some time, and a report will he of Maitre Labort, the sentence of immediately after the German note issued shortly which will help the detention was reaffirmed, but for of protest was handed over, that planned development of regular ten years only, with "extenuating they would take proceedings circumstances."
aga'nst those concerned in the in-routes, a study of the possibilities This amazing condonation of the cident last Saturday when the high treason alleged made the Swastika flag was torn from the night firing and of the neces judgment a farce, and in the mast of the German steamer, Bre- airport lighting systems
sary provision of beacons midst of the hubbub such an armen, when she was about to sal! British Wirdes, rant iniquity aroused, M. Loubet, for Europe
the new President, magnanimously Trunance Eva Min "pardoned" the prisoner for the crime he had never committed.
In order to benefit by this gratuidad
tous insult Dreyfus had to with- NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE draw the appeal he had lodged, and QUOTATIONS APPEAR ON PAGE 4 on September 20, 1899, he was set at liberty after five years of in- carceration, all but a month, dating from his arrest.
GIVEN LEGION OF HONOUR
air services by an indication of
and
LAND REFORM PIONEER
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Oopyright).]
Berlin, July 31v One of the pioneers of the The rest is soon told Colonel a complex and voluminous litera German movement for the reform
of landownership, Damaschte." bear a deadly significance later on.paring them for food, the Picquart was restored to the army, ture around the case.
with the rank of general. A few On July 12, 1808, after a Anal died here on Wednesday after a Subsisting on bread and ter, he years later M Clemenceau made inquiry ordered by the Court of Jong Ilness, at the age of 10. suffered unutterable pains in the him his first Minister of War Cassation, he was declared to bare Damaschke's programme which at head and stomach. A number of But in the main France, showed been falsely accused, and was re- the turn of the century attracted fainting its caused him worse agony than any physical troubles, years after the acquittal elections as major, and given the Legion of few of Heriry Georges radical no real penitence, and for some stored to the army, with promotion many followers retained only a for he feared that he might perish before the day of vindication for went all in favour of the anti- Honour; he wisely preferred to re-principles and was chiefly con- which the still prayed WAS THE REAL TRAITOR
At last Paty rose and placed his hand on the man's shoulder. ex claiming: "In the name of the law I arrest you. You are accused of the crime of high treat Colonel
Later it turned out that Henry, of the General Staff, had been present during the accusation and arrest, but hidden behind a curtain. He conducted the prison- er, in charge of the police officers, But to the military prison in the Rue del de Cherche-Midi. There Dreyfus was left for 17 days in solitary con
the quantity of wo'fram along the Klangal-Kwangtung border finement
The above-mentioned cities, it may be noted, are at present being garrisoned by the law Kwangtung Army under General Yu Han-mou. Kuo Min.
On December 4 General Baussier signed an order for the trial, was afterwards stated that the first accusation a revolv placed conveniently to the pris
himself: ant
cerned with the proposals for the
hent of housin astions
eform of the ru credit policy, planned colonisation and
Dreyfusards M. Labori had been main content with a quiet and re- shot at in the streets on the eve of tired life, and the post he was ven his brillant, cross-examination at during the Great War was
to keep him out of the public view
to be Rennes, and when the remains of his Zola were being transferred to the BD Paris Panthéon Dreyfus was "fred
itby a fanatic, who escap Dunishm
This sem retirement in broken