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Show HIGH TREASON. Paris Greatly Excited Over tho Disclosure Following the Arrest of Captain Dreyftu. The excitement over the spy mania Is still high in Paris. Tho case of Captain Cap-tain Dreyfus, who is awaiting court martial, causes extraordinary comment. It is said to be the intention of the government gov-ernment to insist upon the extreme penalty pen-alty of death in case ho is found guilty. There is apparently good authority for the statement that precise particulars respecting the transport and concentration concen-tration of the French forces in tho event of mobilization after a decla ration of war were placed in the hands of agents of the triple alliance. alli-ance. The hours of the departure and running of trains with troops on the main railway lines and also the branch lines were set forth, together with de toils of the places at which stores would bo procured en route. It is asserted that even the original documonts were sup plied to the intelligence department of the triple alliance at Berlin. Another story relates that the disappearance disap-pearance of some important paper from a pigeonhole at the war office was frequently fre-quently noticed. After diligent search the document would be found in tha precise place from which it had been abstracted The general staff also n tfaid to have beon aware that the Ger man war office prided itself cu its ini tiation into manjfof the secrets of the plan of mobilization. For a long time the French military authorities were puzzled, but eventually succeeded in unraveling tho mystery. It will b quite another thing to prove who has been guJlty of tbvsse acts of high treasoa "Saxia Letter. Eanm'oal was ruined by marrlugo. After his first victorious campaigns in Italy he went into winter quarters at Capua, where he married, and the wedding wed-ding festivities lasted until his army was demoralized, and always afterward was worthless for fighting purposes. |