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Show !11ETS1SM BONNET ROUGE CASE Name of Former Premier Caillaux Again Mentioned as Probable Traitor. PARIS, May 11 The trial of the directors of the Bonnet Rouge, the defunct de-funct Socialist and Germanophile newspaper, news-paper, entered its last phases today when Captain Mornet, the proseeutor, summed up his ease for the state. He said that by conversations about the San Stefano Casino company, with Marx, the Mannheim banker; M. Duval, one of the accused, had been drawn little by little into treason, receiving money from Marx and working for an early peace between France and Germany. Ger-many. Captain Mornet showed the parallel between fifteen peace campaigns by the Bonnet Rouge and the Gazette des Ardennes, a newspaper published in the French language by Germans in occupied occu-pied sections of northern France. He read articles showing the peace-at-any-price policy of the Bonnet Rouge. One quotation was: "President Wilson's action is evidently a victory for those who will fight to" the bitter end, but war is not won' by such victories. ' ' The connection "of M. Caillaux with the present case wa-s closely examined by the prosecutor, who said: ' ' Marx is such an important agent of Germany that when the German government gov-ernment wished to enter into relations, or renew relations, with the French ex-premier, who, it believed, rightly or wrongly, was favorable to it, it sent two documents to the ex-premier's Paris address. One offered an appointment and the other gave the address of Banker Marx. Both were seized in M. Caillaux 's safe in a Florence bank. "I think I am entitled to identify the H. A. Marx of the Caillaux affair as the H. A. Marx of the Bonnet Rouge affair. We are not trying M. Caillaux Cail-laux yet, but I am compelled to pronounce pro-nounce his name every time I deal with a case of treason." This caused a sensation in the courtroom court-room and there was applause. |