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France TrenblGS Still Over the
DrGyflS Case.
CIVIL AND MILITARY CONFLICT
Bitter Attacks and Sharp Charges.
Active Feeling-ESterhaz In
terviewed in London.

PARIS, Sept. 22.-The situation here
both the press and the people. The
conflict between civil and military au-
thorities is becoming acute. The sud
den and unexpected action of Gen.
Zurlinden, military governor of Paris,
in prosecuting Col. Picquart on a
charge of forgery and using forged
documents, assumes a grave aspect
on account of circumstances attending
this intervention of military authority
in the civil court.
Now that the Dreyfus question has
become a great national matter every
proceeding in the affair has a state
Importance. Zurlinden's ignoring of
this obvious fact is very significant
He comes forward as a defender of the
army, the prosecutor Of it's supposed
calumniators, and the resolute oppon-
ent of a revision of the case. From
this appeal to the public in the line of
the establishment of a dictatorship,
there is no wide step. The Radical
makes a bitter attack on the generals
staff which it charges with aiming at
the moral assassination of Picquart
through secret military trial. Henri
Rochefort in his paper, the Intranse-
giant, declares thar Picquart was
bribed by a syndicate or by Germany
to save Dreylus
sn Th0 nn;J
says that Comte EsterhaZy has been
sojourning in London in the guise of
an Italian count He speaks Italian
fiuently. The Daily News reporter
caught him at Charing Cross as he was
about to start for Paris. In the course
Of the interview, EsterhaZy said he
had passed the detectives detailed to
watch him in Paris in his present dis
guise and that nobody had recognized
him. But, he continued 81 distrust-
ed even this. | told Gen. Pellieux after
the suicide of Col. Henri that it would
be impossible to stop things and that
the movement would be formidable
The generals lost their heads | wrote
to NJ. Cavaignac long letter acquaint-
ing him with the points of the affair
He refused to see me. My ruin has
been determined upon. l was thrown
overheard and had nothing left but to
go away and wait developments"
COmte EsterhaZy proceeded to de-
clare that he had vainly tried to con-
vince Gen. Pellieux that the Henri
document was n forgery, but that
Gen. Pellieux had declined to listen to
him.
There WERE" said Count Esterhazy
'but three persons who knew the truth
of the matter-Sanders, Henri and my
self. The first two are dead, and /
alone hold the secret" Comte Ester
haZy complained bitterly of the treat
ment of himself and Nine. Pays who
is in prison in Paris. He declares that
the Judge D'Instruction had Nine Pays
brought from the Saint Lazar prison
and offered her liberty if she would re-
veal all she knew about the generals.
After a reference to other phases of
the affair, Comte Esterhazy said: 81
intend to publish a work that will
throw light upon the unhealthy Drey-
fus story. NJ. Cavaignac made a mis-
take in prosecuting me, but he struck
at the same time his relation, Col. Du
Patty Du Clam. [ may mention that [
already declined a pension offered by
Gen. Billott."
Comte EsterhaZy affected gay non
chalance but as he was taking the
train he said in a sharp, nervous tone,
without pausing for a breath: Il don t
know whether l shall make use OF the
| documents in my possession. 1t will
depend upon the march of events