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Show GALL CULM TO TESTIFY III TRM TRIAL Former French Premier Comes From Prison Cell to Be Witness in Bonnet Bon-net Rouge Case. POLITICIAN CONFINED TO MAKING ONE REPLY j Denies He Mentioned in 1916 German Banker Who Gave Money to Paper for Propaganda. PARIS, May 14. Formr premier Cail-laux Cail-laux was brought into court from his prison cell today to testify in the treason trials growing out of the Bonnet Rouge affair. He was called at the request of counsel for M. Landau, one of the accused, ac-cused, who was a reporter for the Bonnet Rouge. M. Caillaux entered the room in which the court martial Is sitting at 9 o'clock. The room was crowded. The former premier pre-mier apparently was in splendid health. Ills life in prison seemed to have agreed with him, as he looked better than at the time of his last appearance when Bolo Pasha was on trial. Before M. Caillaux began his testimony, Colonel Voyer, the presiding officer, admonished ad-monished him to confine his remarks within the proper limits. "The only point at Issue," said Colonel Voyer, "is whether the witness mentioned the name of Marx or Mannheim (a German Ger-man banker through whom funds were supplleed for the Bonnet Rouge propa- ganda) to M. Landau in September, 1916. Please keep to that point." Denies Mentioning Marx. Caillaux denied emphatically that he mentioned Marx in 1016. He said he had never heard of the man until July, li)17, and then only when the Bonnet Rouge case was discussed in the chamber ot deputies. It was brought out that the name and address of Marx were found on a slip of paper among the documents belonging be-longing to M. Caillaux which were discovered discov-ered at Florence. The former premier explained ex-plained this by saying the paper was handed to him by a Swiss merchant, who was introduced to him on the pretext that he was to speak about the exchange of merchandise between France and Switzerland. Switzer-land. "t dismissed him brutally," declared M. Caillaux. Colonel Voyer evidently was anxious to have M. Caillaux conclude his testimony. "That is a sufficient answer," he said. "You may go." Caillaux insisted on speaking further, however, saying: "I have never given one franc to the Bonnet Rouge since the war began. It is true that I subscribed 40,000 francs before be-fore the war, but this fund was exhausted at the beg-innin of hostilities. At the time I was engaged in defending my honor against a bitter press campaign. The Bonnet Rouge defended me, and therefore I helped It. Witness Gets Excited. "I have defended my honor In the past and will do so in the future with all possible pos-sible means at my jcommand." M. Calllaux's voice rose to a high pitch and he exhibited emotion as he made this declaration. A ripple of applause broke out. It was suppressed quickly. "It is my contention," said he, "that a public man in time of war must consider con-sider every possibility of bringing about a favorable peace, no matter whence It comes." M. Caillaux's testimony seemed to be disturbing to the accused, who immediately imme-diately began to attempt to shift the responsibility re-sponsibility upon each other. M. Marion, who was assistant manager of the Bonnet Rouge, accused M. Duval, the director, and M. Landau. The latter replied that M. Marlon's declaration was untruthful. All the defendants except M Joucla, who remained Silent, attempted to separate their cases from that of M. Duval, for whom alone the prosecution specifically demands the death sentence. |