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| bounds. Considering recent events. Major
Count aWlsin Esterhazy retains an amaz-
ingly cool attitude.
In the course of an interview yesterday
he expressed astonishment that Lieuten ant
Colonel Henry was allowed 10 have a
razor. Henry's death, he said. was re-
gretable, 'becaUse doubtless. he had other
revelations TO make"
Count Esterhazy intends to appeal
against his enforced retirement from active
service in the army.
ZOLA'S ACCUSATIONS.
NJ Emile Zola In his famous II accuse"
letter, whic HE'D to his trial and conviction
on the charge of libeling military officers,
said:
~ accuse Lieutenant Colonel Patty du
Clam of having been the diabolical worker
of a judicial error, unconsciously, l am
ready to believe. and Of then having de-
Tended his nefarious doings for the past
three years by the most absurd and culpa-
bic Vaccinations accuse General Mer-
cier (who was minister for war when Drey-
fus was tried Of being the accomplice, at
least, through weak intelligence, in the
greatest iniquity of the century. I accuse
General Billot minister for war during
his hands the certain proofs of the in
nocence of Dreyfus and of having sup
pressed them, thus having rendered him
self guilty of treason against humanity
and justice, for a political reason and in
order to save the compromised staff. 1
accuse General Boisdeffre Che chief of the
general staff and General GonZ (the as
sistant chief of the general staff of being
the accOmplices in the same crime, the
one through religious animosity, doUbtl
less, the other perhaps through the esprit
de corps which makes the war office a
sacred and unassailable ark. I accuse
General de Peliieux and Major Ravary of
whereby I mean an inquiry of the most
monstrous partiality. l accuse the three
experts in handwriting, the men Belhom-
me, Varinard and Couard. of having drawn
up false and fraudulent reports, unless
medical examination shall prove them to
be victims of disease of sight or judg-
ment. I accuse the officers of the war Of
flee of having organized a press cam
paign in order to lead public opinion
astray. Finally, l accuse the first court
martial of having condemned a man on
document kept secret, and / accuse the
second court-martial of having covered this
illegality by order and of committing in
its turn the judicial crime of knowingly
acquitting a guilty person.
After a long trial, in February last, NJ.
lola was sentenced TO one years imprison-
ment and to pay a fine of 5000 francs for
these alleged libels and NJ. Parreaux, man
ager of the Aurore. was sentenced to four
months Imprisonment and to pay 5000
francs fine.
On his way from the court house during
the trial NJ Zola was continually hooted
by mobs and at its conclusion narrowly
escaped personal violence. When the
French author heard the verdict he ex-
claimed: They are cannibals!'
General Boisdeffre, the chief OF the gen.
eral staff of the French army, who has
just resigned is understood to be in high
favor at st. petersburg. He gained con-
siderable popularity by his attitude in de-
Tense of the army during the lola trial,
and at one time was looked upon as pos
sfbly aiming at a military dictatorship.
Prince Henry Of Orleans, who is credited
with hoping for a military movement
against the French republic. also tried to
make capital out of the trial. He showed
himself daily in the hal lof the court
house. and one day embraced Major Es-
terhazy. another Of the French officers
implicated in the scandal, crying: "Vive
among his Orleanst friends, but which
did not otherwise excite the crowd present
to any degree.