The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-25
President Faure Said to BE Playing q
Deep Game, with General zur-
linden as Mentor.
CABINET TO MEET MONDAY
WHEN THE REVISION QUESTION
WILL PROBABLY BE SETTLED.
Another Chapter of the Revelations
Alleged to Have Been Made by
Count Esterhazy.
Copyright. 1sss by the Associated Press,

Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Preas)
LONDON, Sept. 24.-The alarming situa-
ton in France rivets the attention OF Eu-
rope. The excitement is increasing hourly.
new revelations and developments are ex-
pected, and a military coup detat would
Lot surprise anybody. The weakness of M.
Brisson, the premier. over the affair Of
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart who is now in
secret confinement in the military prison of
Cherche Midi, placed there. apparently.
without the knowledge of the government.
and in spite of the fact that he was in the
hands of civil court, has disgusted even
his own personal friends, who call him a
coward and dolt. while the enemies of a
revision of the Dreyfus case accuse him OF
being hypocrite and of having sold him
self to a Dreyfus syndicate an organization
which undoubtedly exists.
General Zurlnden. who is once more mill
itary governor of Paris. with the cognizance
of General Chanoine. who succeeded the lat
ter as minister of war, acted entirely with
out reference to the premier, M. Brisson,
who, with majority of his colleagues, was
completely dumfounded at his proceedings.
The supporters of the Cabinet declare that
M. Brisson in order to save the Constitu-
ton, should dismiss General Chanoine and
General Zurlinden, and even arraign them
for reasonable conduct Only bold action
will secure the supremacy of civil law. One
satisfactory feature of the prosecution Of
Colonel Picquart is that the War Office has
engaged to give him an open trial, which
NJ Brisson insisted upon before he consent-
ed TO the prisoners transfer 10 the military
prison OF Cherche Midi. The friends of
Colonel Picquart declare that If he is pub
licly tried he will throw floods of light upon
the whole mystery.
In an interview a former pariiamentarian,
who has figured in all the political events in
France since 1869, published in to-day's
Daily News, is quoted as expressing opin-
ions regarding the role which President
Faure is playing. confirming previous state
ments on the same subject. He says that
General Zurlnden enjoys the full confidence
of the French President, who is in love with
military glamour. President Faure. he
adds, has but to say the word and have
France at his feet; and he further says IL
he does not say this word and declares him
self in favor of a revision of the Dreyfus
case, he will have the whole French mob in
hue and cry against him, and he will have
to 60 But If, in order to oppose revision,
he resigns the presidency, the National AS
sembly or Congress, for the election Of
President will meet at Versailles within
twenty-four hours and NJ Faure will be re-
elected by crushing majority of those who
are hostile to a revision. He will then
form a Ministry with M. Barthou as pre-
mier, and with an ambitious. strong general
at the head of the War Office, then he will
be able to do what he likes with France.
The well-known journalist. F. C.. Cony-
beare who hitherto has displayed an
intimate knowledge of the Dreyfus case,
writes letter to the Daily Chronicle ex-
planning that Colonel Schwarzkoppen,
formerly German military attache in Paris.
actually wrote the petit bleu to Count Es-
terhazy, but, on second thought, tore it
into fragments and threw it away and that
the Algerian porter at his lodgings gathered
up the fragments and sent them to Colonel
Picquart. The bordereau, he says, was adj
dressed by Count Esterhazy to Colonel
Schwarzkoppen, but was intercepted and
given to the French authorities by the
Alsatian.
The National Zeitung Of Berlin, expresses
the belief that the petit bleu is a genuine
document and says: 1T would have been
quite within the province of Colonel
Schwarzkoppen to enter into relations with
a French officer like Count Esterhazy, If he
proffered information ard there is no doubt
such relations existed"