Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-02
FRANCE CONVULSED
aISRYs FORGED LETTER MEANT MUCH
To Drsyfas. zeis. E.tsrh.sy aud rieausrt-
Everybody :. r.sorsbl. To HssIsioa
OF the Trial

New York. AUG. "A dispatch "a
the rriburc from Paris says Col
Henry's confession ~ forging the IA
mouh document upon the authenticity
Of which Gen. DE Bol.denre. chief OF
stan OF the French army. In his Inn
FASHIONED appeal to the jury In the
zoln trial. Htaked his own reputation
ana the honor Of the army. and Col,
donrys suicide In the fortress OF Mont
Valodien. have caused an emotion
throughout France which has pot been
witnessed since the fall OF Sedan.
Col. Henry. a peasants son. pro-
NOTED from the ranks and lmbued with
an the instincts and low cunning and
narrow personal anlmoully often char
aoterirtic OF French peasants. had no
conception Of the enormity OF his
crime until overwhelmed BY IT. de-
tecilon. This brave but infatuated
chief OF the intelligence department OF
the French army embodied the whole
head ana front VI Drcyfus'h conviction,
OF Zola'a condemnation, OF Esterhazy' =
acaultial. and Of Plequarta degradation
ana imprisonment.
Although the document which Col.
Henry forged In 1896 cannot technically
have any eject on the preyfuA trlai,
which took place In 1854. n IL neverthc-
less with CONSERVATION that today pc0-
pie are asking what sort OF evidence
could DfeyfuA have been convicted on,
II IN thn Judgment ~ Col. Henry y wha
10 iimsy that he thought u could MOI
stand Investigation without being
propped up by official forgery.
AZ Cavalgnac. the minister OF war, In
hla memorable speech In the chamber
on July Z, based his declaration upos
the authenticity OF this formal docu.
ment, which was printed and posted
on the walls throughout France.
After conversing with Representative
Frenchmen OF every class and after
mixing with excited groups In the
streets and cafes. u II evident that the
popular tide Is at last turning In favor
of a revision OF the DreyfuH trial, no
matter what the consequences may be.
IL IL significant that such newspapers
az the caulolH, the Echo de Paris ana
Journals which are known 10 be In
close touch with the army, now de-
clare. that the feeling OF military men
IA out and out for revision OF the eour,
martial and that many prominent oiil-
GERS insist that the honor OF the army
itself which necesalthtes such revi-
den. De nolsdenfre. whose monstrous
threat 10 resign with the whole general
ataff OF the army n Zola was acquitted.
mas now, by his resignation. admitted
that he was the blind dupe OF for
ger.
whether or not the general stan has
been duped IN other mattera-that OF
national defense. Tor Instance, Henri
uochefort, who atlll champions the va
iidltv OF Dreyfua'a condemnation, w
authority for the statement that all tho
officers OF the French general stan om-
Moved an Paris have applied TO be re-
iieved OF their present duties ana sen,
back 10 their respective regiments
Tho minister 81 war II conscientloualy
subiectlng an documentary evidence
used In the Dreyfua and Zola trials TO
expert tests 10 ascertain whether any
more f0rgcrlea exist Ihefe " every
Indication that the army and people
now demand that the prisoner on De-
vn,a island shall have a new and falr
Trial. but this cannot take place Tor
many months
AIfhoueh arm confidence In the sim
cerltv and good faith ~ the minister
M war IL Expressed on all sides. there
n much comment on the fact that ex-
! cal plcaunrt IN apparently the only
nerann In France who was not com.
nietely as.ounded at the news OF Hen.
ry's confession and suicide, When thu