| Show stafLIND LIKENED TO GAETTA Mt Labor Compared to Great Italian Statesman London Aug 24The special correspondents corre-spondents at RCe agree that n though yeSedays sitting of the curt martial was monotonous it was alto ato gethe a good day for Dreyfus who a the correspondent of the pal News says is taking a paonate and quite Impersonal interest in his imperon interet own case and has in fact become a Drefusite The proceedings tough much less exciting than on the previous day were still dominate by the strong personality per-sonality of Id Lari People are beginning be-ginning to see a likeness to the opening of Gambettas career and are asking whether Lbi will go sO fa t The mot Important wlnt in the pro t I ceedlngs perhaps was the disposal of General Gonse who practically had to confC that the general staff had shided Esterhay Thus 1erier and Gon arc both practically selved and the general staff is beginning to show sign of wavering Another good sign was when a punt oC law arose on ii certain matter and Colonel ouausr the president of the I curmartal replied r am not up in law I will mae inquiries and If r find r have the right to do so 1 wi make the order This was in reply to Laboris reItst for certain information cncerhl t e charactcr of a wines to be furnished by the public proeecutor and It seemed to indicate a desire on the part of the jUde honestly to seek truth The correspondent of the Times says r learn on good authority that the force of the prosecution led by Gen erl Roget a very seriously discussing discus-sing the advisability of adopting entirely en-tirely new tactics According to mr information in-formation the hope to be able t ran do plausible the following theory In the presence a they are of undoubted un-doubted facts of treason as proved by the existence of the bordereau and quite unwilling to admit that Colonel I Henry was capable of treason convinced con-vinced moreover that only a general stat officer could possibly have obtaIned ob-taIned the information contained in the I bordereau they ought to impose as a I solution or as an explanation the idea that Drefu and Esterhaz were accomplices ac-complices brought together by Vyel of the Yacet and thus Esterhazys admission ad-mIssion that the bordereau is in his hand a fact accepted by the court of cassation would be accepted by the curtmartal while Dreyfus would be looked upon as the real traitor and purveyor oc documents to the military attaches of the triple alliance r ned not marsha agaInst this hypothesis hy-pothesis the numerous proofs of its improbability im-probability and even of its impossibl ty but r mention It here because the very fact of Its being noW under discussion discus-sion shows a sudden and brilliant light I on the panlcI do not hesitate to use s strong a terwhIch has seized hold of the little bad of conspirators against justice as they have beheld the Rennes judges during the lat three days slowly but surely place in possession pos-session of those facts of which only French superior ofcers outside the wan office still remain in blissful Ignorance |
