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Show SEQUEL TO DREYFUS CASE. French Court-Martial .Opens to Try Four Prominent Officers. PARIS. Oct. 25. A sequel to the Dreyfus Drey-fus case was tho opening of the court-martial court-martial today of four prominent officers of tho War Ministry, Cols. Dautrlch. Hol-lln, Hol-lln, Francois and Marechal, enarged with using military funds and otherwise influencing in-fluencing witnesses against Dreyfus at Rennes. The court Is composed of Gen. Berlin, four Colonels and two Lieutenant-Colonels. Tho previous Ministerial Investigation partially vindicated tho accused, ac-cused, who demanded a court-martial. Col. Dautrlch testified that during tho entiro course of the proceedings at Rennes he followed tho orders of his superiors. Tho Indictment charges Col. Dautrlch, whllo custodian of tho military archives In 1S09, of mutilating books and making erasures for tho purposo of shielding the diversion of funds by Colonols Rollln. Francois and Mareschal. The-three latter lat-ter aro- specifically charged with appropriating appro-priating 31000 when tho prosecution of Dreyfus was going on A largo crowd attended tho trial, Including In-cluding Maltro Labor!, Col. PIcquart. Joseph Jo-seph Relnach, the biographer of Dreyfus, Drey-fus, and other notabilities of the Drey--fus case. The testimony was largely technical and concerned tho methods of handling war archives and funds. Tho trial went over to tomorrow. Tho four accused officers of-ficers aro detained, ponding tho conclusion conclu-sion of their trial, In thc prison of Cher-cho Cher-cho Midi. |