The record-union., 1897-01-10

nifty of the scandal involved, began by
heaping reproaches upon Colonel jung,
charging him with obtaining valuable
contracts through his wife's influences
with the aged Minister. The Colonet
| fought several dueis with the editors or
| the newspapers thus asSailing him.
when matters were suddenly compL-
Gated by a report to the effect thar
some valuable military documents
were missing from the War Departs
ment, and that they had passed into tho
hands of the German Government. The
newspapers which had been attacking
Colonel jung at once fastened upon hlIn
as the guilty person and charged hAlii
with being a traitor.
Friends and foes now pointed out TO
him that this was far too grave an ac-
cusation TO be met by any mere chal~
erge to fight duels, and that there was
only one way by which dt could be metz
namely. by a suit for libel against his
traducerS. The action which he there
upon instituted in its turn led to sim
liar suit on the part of the Minister OF
War against Henri Rochefort, the GenA
erals object being to clear himself from
the accusation Of having unduly fa-
vored Nine. de Kaula In the award OF
army contracts. Before the two trials
were ended the entire affair was
brought to light It was concluSively
proved that Colonel Jung, far from be-
ing his wifes friend, was, on the con-
trary, the object of her bitter hatred,
and Of her cruel persecution; that he
had in no wise benefited by her friend
ship with General de CisSey, but hads
on the contrary. suffered Cherefrom,
and that he was entirely innocent OF
amy connection with the disappearance
Of papers from the War Department,
On the other hand, it was shown that
the old General had been for the space
of nearly two years in the habit or
lunching once or twice a week at the
residence of the Baroness, usually re-
pairing thither for the monday meal,
at the conclusion of the Cabinet Council
held under the Presidency of Marshal
MacMahon at the Elysee Palace close
by. 1t turned out that the footmen
of the Baroness were, If not German
staff officers, at any rate agents of the
Berlin War Department and that while
the Baroness and her party, including
of course the Minister, were at lunch
in the dining room, these servants
would take shorthand notes of the con-
tents of his eXcellency's ministerial
portfolio, which he invariably left In
the salon while at table, and which
usually contained memoranda and rec
ords of the subject under discussion at
the Cabinet council held an hour or
two previously. These notes were. OF
course, at once communicated by cipher
telegraph to Berlin
1t is impossible to describe the effect
of these disclosures. The Baroness de
Kaula had to leave France in the same
way the Italian Duchess OF LAtta and
the Countess OF Castiglione had been
forced to do for offenses of a similar
nature during the latter part of the
reign of Napoleon III; while General de
CisSey, condemned, not as a knave, but
as weak fool, was in spite of his mag
nifcent war record and great services
to the State, compelled to resign his
seat in the Cabinet and rank in the
active service of the army, dying soon
afterward a broken-spirited and ruined
man.-Ex- -attache, in New York Trib-
une-