The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-18
Question of Reopening the Case
Which Will Meet This Week.
POLITICAL HORIZON DARK
CRETAN AND EGYPTIAN QUESTIONS
MORE THREATENING.
Admiral Noel Ordered to Punish Mus
suImans and Gen. Kitchener May
Drive French from FashOda.

PARIS, Sept. 17.-General Zurlnden, min
lister of war, has sent his written resigna-
ton to. Premier Brisson as follows: 81
have the honor to beg you to receive my
resignation as minister of war. An ex-
haustive study of the paper in the Dreyfus
case has convinced me too fully of his
guilt for me to accept, as the head of the
army, any other solution than that of the
maintenance of the judgment in it's en-
tirty.''
AT meeting of the Cabinet ministers to-
day it was decided to submit the documents
in the Dreyfus case to a commission to be
selected by the minister of justice, NJ. Sar-
rien. The minister of war, General Zurlin-
den, and the minister of public works, Senior
TilIaye, left before the council adjourned.
The council met at the Elysee Palace at 930
a. M, President Faure presiding. Accord
ing to a semi-oficial note, the minister of
justice said that after having examined
the papers he felt unable to decide on the
question of the proposed revision of the
Dreyfus case until he had taken the opin-
ion of a special commission of the minister
of justice. The Cabinet, thereupon, author
lied the minister to summon a commission
for the purpose.
AS he was leaving the Elysee Palace after
the Cabinet meeting a large crowd of peo-
pie cheered the premier, M. Brisson, with
cries of Viva la revision!' apparently show
ing that popular feeling was changing in
favor of reopening of the Dreyfus case.
Later in the day another Cabinet council
was held, st which General Chanoine, COM
mander of the Firss Division of the First
Army Corps Department of the North and
the Pas de Calais), was appointed minister
of war, in succession to General Zurlinden,
and Senator Godin, representing French
India, was appointed minister Of public
works. succeeding M. Tillaye. The latter. in
transmitting his letter of resignation, is ap
parently bidding for popular favor He
wrote: 1.-THE council having decided to ap-
point a commission to consider the request
for a revision of the trial of the convict
Dreyfus, j am unable to accept any share
in the responsibility for the step which, in
my opinion, involves revision of the case"
The committee summoned by NJ. Sarrien
to decide upon the question of the proposed
revision will begin to consider the matter
on Wednesday next.
Six Hundred Forged Documents.
LONDON. Sept. 1s-The Observer this
morning states that Count Ferdinand Wal
sin Esterhazy has been in London for ten
days past. The fact, the paper says, is
known to a very few here, and it is not
suspected in Paris. Count Esterhazy is oc-
cupying a fiat near st. James and Pail
Mall Is. W. He has shaved his mustache,
and it is not easy to recognize him. He
explains that there is no longer any justice
for him in his own country, and says that
what he did was done in blind, unquestion-
ing brutal obedience to orders from a SUI
perior. IF 1 were ordered to take a gun
and shoot my own brother 1 would do so
without hesitation Count Esterhazy de-
clared. He added that out Of the 1000 docu-
ments in the Dreyfus dossier approximately
six hundred were forged, and that he was
prepared to show by whom and in what
circumstances the forgeries were committed.