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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1930.
SPY DRAMA THAT
RENT FRANCE.
TRUTH OF DREYFUS AFFAIR
NOW REVEALED.
GUESTS KAISERS' STATEMENT.
More than 30 years after the Dreyfus case, which shook France. to its political and milltary foun- dations, the whole truth about that! emazing "affaire" has been ex- tracted from the archives of the German Foreign Office and from private papers of two
of the "dramatis personae."
Thirty years after-when all the eminent persona concerned aro dend, sove one. That alle Dreyfus himself.
[In 1894 Captain Dreyfus was sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island on a false chargej of selling secret French docu- ments to Germany. I'
The German Government knew that Dreyfus WOS innocent. A word from Wilhelmstrasse would have saved him from Devil's Island. But it refused to utter that word.
Dr. Bruno Well, an eminent German historian and jurist, at present in Paris, tells, the
ex- traordinary "inside story" of the "affaire" as he has extracted it from the above-mentioned sources.
Von Bulow's “No.” Before the second trial of Dreyfus by a court-martial at Rennes, M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the Prime Minister, convinced of his innocence, repeatedly "implored" the German Government to provide proof that French military docu-) menta had been delivered to Ger-:
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Count von Bulow, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, refused to allow this to be done.
M. Delcasse, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and General de Gallifet, Minister of War, also plended with Berlin, but without [result.
Me. Labori, Dreyfus's counsel, telegraphed to the Kaiser, asking that Major Schwarzkoppen, Ger man Military Attache ́ ́in
Paris. might be called as a witness at the Rennes trial.
Count von Bulow, however, i refused to allow his Imperial master to intervene in the matter.
The Kaiser followed the савс with interest, and expressed his
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opinion in a way he frequently true, but I acted on the orders of resorted to by a marginal note on an official communication.
my chiefs. They insisted on "This Dreyfus is innocent." he innocent, but so Colonel Picquart" silence. Not only is Dreyfus wrote.
who was retired from the army On one occasion, however, as the author of the "Petit Blue." Count von Munster, German Am-another document in the case- bassador in Paris, assembled the "must be too.
officials of the Embassy, including "I asked my chiefs that I might Major Schwarzkoppen, and ques-be allowed to do something for Lioned them about the case.
these men, but I was ordered to
"We do not know Dreyfus, and be silent. I was silent."
no such document as that men- Schwartkoppen adds that tioned in the case has been pur-fold his superiors in
he Berlin the loined from the Embassy," they all whole truth about the affair. declared. Count von Munster in- Prince Hohenlohe, the Chancellor, fermed the President of the Count von Bulow, and the Chief Republic "on his honour" that this of Staff of the army were inforined was the case.
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Dreyfus was lost--for the time! "From all," he says, "I got the being.
same. precise
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to German's advantage that the bitter agitation should continue in France. And why did Major Schwarzkoppen make a false state. ment to Count von Munster?
"Ordered to be Silent." This question is answered in a remarkable letter, now revealed for the first time, written by Schwarzkoppen himself to the
count,
"You say I lied to you," the Military Attache wrote.
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