Show THE HE ATTACK ON DREYFUS Major Alfred of the French l army array may count himself Id y tit he heIs h his heIs Is not lying deed dead de d at athle his hoeD boma in Parie Perle I IoS os the result of oC an a w t iM l bullet bulit The man who tried to kin kilt him stood at od FO CO fI lOSe dose that the failure to complete his work vas waa little short cf f providen providential The character of the intending assassin makes the attack atteck on Dreyfus remarkable The man men who ho the shots was no ordinary criminal He Be was Louts Anthene Gregoris Gre a writer of repute on military topics tonics and anda a man m highly thought of ot in the circles in which he moved He says he fired tired on Dreyfus Drefus by way of oC protest against the participation par by the in a tribute to the he memory of Zola It seems most moat significant though that Gregoria deliberately waited alted until he ha could get a close shot at Drey Dreyfus fus Ius There Thore were went plenty of oC other anny army men mon around Why did h he single Drey Dreyfus Dreyfus Dreyfus fus out of oC all aU of them if a mere mere dem demonstration demonstration demonstration of oC protest it was his purpose It If that was really lila his b l notion BOtlon any other officer would have hae answered equally as ae aswell well as Dreyfus Drefus The veal Hal truth un undoubtedly undoubtedly Is la that the grudge wa against Dreyfus himself lC It is ie almost aImos Impossible to get away from fima it IL it Dreyfus has never been forgiven by a large percentage percenta e of DC the French people for managing to clear cleat himself through Zolas ad of oC the infamously unjust against him No man In our time has been more obviously the vic vie victim victIm tim of a conspiracy con to degrade and an run ruin rUt him Although an innocent man Dray Drev Ils was wan stripped of his army rank and ami tent lent to a lonely loBey prison on on Devils ml Island island and where whore he was wag kept for tor years un under under Under der a false accusation of oC selling French ranch military secrets to Germany The wonder is IB that the t man did not jie lif it But he must have been nerved by bl the thought that he ha must t not die without hit his h Innocence This once Riven given a fair tall trial he be a nt the victory carrying with it restoration to Ida his former rank of ItC and promotion in due course le leIn In most countries such a Ii man would be tt p given every opportunity to live Ifta out the thO of oC his life lite in Hi peace pe H It would seem that the nation that t had rd him could not do enough to honor 1 him France is 18 different dUle t I I II |