| Show ZOLAS STRONG LETTER HE SHOWS UP THE rottenness OF THE ARMY new york sept 13 A dispatch to the new york tribune from paris says emale zolas impassioned protest against the rennes verdict which appears in the aurore causes an impression second only to that of his memorable letter 1 I accuse the following passages of zolas remarkable document appeal with such force to honest minded frenchmen and indicate so clearly the new phase upon which the dreyfus tragedy seems about to enter that they are singled out as of paramount importance zola after stating that the moral of sedan of september 1899 is a hundred fold more disastrous than the sedan of september 1870 when blood only was lost points out the national peril created by the president of the rennes court martial when he refused II 11 la berls application to take the testimony of the former german and italian military attaches and thereby prevented the production of the documents enumerated in the bordereau zola affirms his absolute certainty that a considerable number of documents in Esterhazy a handwriting which esterhazy furnished to Schwartz koppen are in the archives of the ministry of war at derlin he declares that germany which tomorrow may be an enemy of france holds in her hands these irrefutable proofs of the triple judicial error committed by the court martial of 1894 and by the court martial of 1898 when esterhazy was acquitted and ay the rennes court martial in case of war germany could thus at the very outset dishonor the french army in the eyes of europe by simply publishing these documents and revealing the abominable iniquity of its chiefs diplomacy has already removed the main difficulties germany Is willing to return the documents enumerated in the bordereau whenever the french government asks for them these documents constitute new facts which will make necessary a second revision of the dreyfus case before the court of cassation should the government hesitate to ask for the documents in question they will nevertheless be surely forthcoming for if justice shall not have been accomplished before nov 23 when my trial begins at versailles even M labora will pronounce the pleadings at lea which it was impossible tor him to pronounce at rennes 1 ame mme dreyfus fears that her husbands health will soon break down completely dreyfus nerved himself up during the rennes trial but the reaction Is such that the physicians con alder tits case hopeless and say that any day a fatal collapse may ensue meanwhile the intervention of president loubet by according to dreyfus a full pardon Is regarded by those the president as almost certain ednd this would bo followed by executing the policy of the sponge and alp ing out all old sores and the pending trials which originated in i the dreyfus affair to mere empty formalities mali ties releasing roulede De and hla I 1 royalist companions and liquidating c the whole situation by a general am nesty preparatory to tho worlds fair of 1900 |
