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Show A ROCHEFORT ROMANCE. Ambassador Porter benies the Editor's Statements. Paris, Dec. 5. nenry Rochefort, editor of the Intransigeant, having declared de-clared in that paper that General Horace Porter, United States ambassador ambas-sador to France, recently said England financed the Dreyfus syndicate with a view of dividing and weakening France. General Porter, on being shown the paper, said that Rochefort's statement was a fabrication, pure and simple. Cplonel Picquart, now in custody and awaiting trial on a charge of having communicated to his counsel documents docu-ments that had come into his possession posses-sion in the military department of the secret service, has applied to the court of cessation, now engaged with the Dreyfus affair, to declare whether he is amenable to military or civil jurisdiction. juris-diction. His application is based upon various articles in the case of criminal procedure. |