Show MATAAFA HAS BIG FORCE chicago newspaper man jutt just back from samoa talks chicago jan 13 19 F r IV pickard ric karil 0 a chicago newspaper man who mho has recently returned tram from samoa has had this to say of 0 tho the situation everybody fit at abla apia know knew that a bloody conflict would result it if the court decided in favor of oc young tanus and even the friends of the latter admitted freely t that hat he would b have ave no abow now if 1 there ava was 4 a tight light mataafa llata afa has had a very lar largo ge majority ot of the natives with him front from the first fully 80 per cent I 1 should say gay and furthermore lie la Is by tar far the best beat man tor for king lie he Is intelligent tell igent dignified courteous and has ha the years which natives respect aside from the question of expediency there them Is no doubt in my mind that ata was rightfully elected xing king I 1 reached this conclusion after two months careful inquiry into the status of the ease the trial itself had been a farce up to the time I 1 left two days before its tt close very few samoans can be relied on art to tell tho the truth even under an oath it it if the truth would harm their culise cause find and tho the chief justice knows this as well uell as any one else tito german consul has been at loggerheads logger heads with tho the american find and british consuls throughout the whole girair and lavig persistently refused to let act with them lie he openly espoused the cause of I 1 matamata Mata ata and he certainly went further than consuls usually illy do the british and american consuls in maintained alanta I 1 tied PL a neutral attitude throughout the trial only giving assurance that they mould protect the lives and property of the white residents the dispatches say that army noted looted euid burned apia abia that evidently does not mean the municipality as a nichole but the native village of apia abia which Is in only one of several oral within the municipality if the ah powers undertake to force forc the chief justices de decision cislon they will have a tough job the warships now there cannot land over men and Mata atas afas forces number many thou sand the natives are dahly well arat armed d though they have not a great dent deal of ammunition they could 1 bilth alth draw a file way ivay from the coit coast coi t and keep up lip th the tight fight for months in the country libere 11 here the white while soldiers would ou lit find food very scarce pearce and the bush alo dense for effective movements it would not be so easy to sub dur due and capture matamata aa a it was in 1833 1893 for at that time lip in biad sent nearly I 1 y a all 11 his fol followers louers to their homes riot not desiring war DREYFUS E FUS BORDEREAU gen gan mercier reiterates former statements regarding it paris jim jan 19 the coir today publishes another interview inith gen mercier Mer cler nho mho was minister of 0 war alvar at the time of the condemnation of dreyfus us gen herder ills fits former statements and reasserts hp borde liori loreau was certainly the bork of dreyfus Drey tui anti and not 0 of EMet hazy nho iho aas aa not aware of 0 its existence until unlit long subsequent to the trial under tho the plea pica of professional secrecy lie declined to explain how the war office obtain obtained e d T the he bordereau the secret dossier doshler he said consisted of war ministry documents fully proving the inferences deduced from rom the bordereau the suggestion that ll it contained letters bael c re front from a foreign sovereign he c it e prized as ad a pure invent invention a I 1 as was also lie he declared the statement that thai sir air casimir verler presidency of the Ile public on account of 0 tile dreyfus affair regarding dinK the motives that prompted dreyfus to commil the treason imputed gen herder said dreyfus dreyfu i mas alas too fond 0 of the society of women of n it a certain class had it not been for his reputation in this respect he would have left the military collero college orti oliff the first three of lil its class clans but to his known immoral proclivities lie ho was placed eleventh I 1 think he re rc denied this and that his trea treason sou was probably an act ot of revenge for or it dreyfus was waa also in the habit of 0 talking t un patriot to ally A general was once obliged to censure lit him ill for saying that the preferred to belong to germany as they N acro ere better treated dreyfus adding that tha t he quite agreed with them |