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Show M CAILLAUX, former prime j minister of France, who is now being tried in Paris for treason. J FORMER FlEBCIJiM Declares Caillaux's Program Pro-gram Would Have Meant Civil War in Country. PARIS, Oct. 29. Sitting as- a high court, the French senate today began its sittings for the trial of ex-Premier Caillaux, Cail-laux, Deputy Louis L.oustalot and Paul Comby. The court appointed a committee to study the enormous mass of evidence transmitted by the magistrates who heretofore have been investigating the case. M. Lescouve during his presentation of the case gave quotations from documents in M. Caillaux's handwriting which were found ina bank in Florence. He said he did this to show Caillaux considered the French press more responsible for the war than Germany. The prosecutor said that Caillaux in April, 1915, believed the war was lost and that this defendant always was more occupied concerning the making of peace than the winning of the war. The program Caillaux had drawn up for France after peace would have meant civil war, the prosecutor added. M. Lescouve dealt at length with Count James Minotto, son-in-law of Louis F. Swift, a Chicago packer, who is interned in the United States, but who is alleged to have made a confession concerning a plot engaged In by Caillaux. Count von Luxburg, former German minister to Argentina, Ar-gentina, and himself, to disrupt the entente en-tente alliance and bring about a new war, in which the Teutonic allies, with France, Italy and Spain, would be arrayed ar-rayed against Great Britain and Russia. Rus-sia. The prosecutor gave a detailed biography biog-raphy of Minotto and traced his relations with Baron von Seebeck, son of a German Ger-man officer, and Hugo Schmidt, western United States agent of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, both of whom are in- ! terned in the United States. Conversations of Caillaux while in Italy also were freely gone into by the prosecutor. Caillaux was quoted as having hav-ing said in Italy that the war could not last until the autumn of 1917, owing to France's lack of raw material for the manufacture of munitions and because of revolutions in Algeria and Senegal. |