The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-12
officers Desert Dreyfusards as
Though They Were Lepers.
CAPT. DREYfUS SEEMS IMPROVED
Judges Are Strongly Prejudiced Against
the Exile, and May Convict Him
on His Looks if the Evil
dence Breaks Down
BY EMILY CRAWFORD

Rennes, August 11.-All the notable
Dreyfustes here are satisfied with the re-
suit of the examina ton of the secret
dossier. They have urged their newspaper
friends in Paris to clamor for full pub
licity, knowing that if it be granted, mill
tary and nationalist parties would be ut
tery disgraced
They are convinced that the diploma tic
and war office dossiers TEEN with forger-
les. OF course, their impressions are de-
rived from the five counsels present at the
examination of these precious papers.
Publicity would mean the pillory for
General de Boisdeffre and company. They
would be pelted with their own foul eggs
while Captain Dreyfus would be cleared in
the face of the whole world.
The military cast here is furious at the
turn things are taking. The correspon-
dent of a Russian paer told me today that
in a cafe frequented by officers, he un-
folded the Dreyfus tie aurore to read All
the military men nearby scowled at him
in marked manner and after coughing
and otherwise showing their dsapproval,
went in body to the other end of the cafe
as If the Russian were leper.
All the officers al the Military club came
out on the club balcony when a bundle of
Dreyfusite journals was being burned in
the streets, and they approved the per-
formance by unmistakabe gestures. One
now sees the wisdom of the order forbid
ding officers not attached to the garrison
to stay here during the trial.
Dossier Ranks Unciean Literature
hear that in unclean imaginations the
secret military dossier exceeds the worst
top-shelf literature. The scrbes who
worked for Henry and his friends did not
hesitate to forge letters from high diplo-
matte personages Nearly a score of love-
letters from lady high in the diplom tic
sphere are supposed to have been seized
IN the dispatch box of an embassy during
transmission to Berlin. The person whom
she is reported as having had as a corre-
spondent Was an attache of an EMBASSY
there and much younger than the lady.
who is made to appear impassioned. quite
an Eloise. OF course she mentions the
Dreyfus affair and asks the attache to help
whitewash the unfortunate captain.
Judges are Prelude d
M. Labori is naturally sanguine and has
always hoped, but can gather that both
counsel still see that the judges are deeply
ana strongly prejudiced against the prisoner
and will try to condemn him on his looks If
all legal evidence breaks down.
All the officers now read the Polioue
Journal, which they had never looked at
before the Dreyfus affair." The Venome
and Vitrol of the Intransigeant are CRATE
full to them because employed against their
enemies, real or supposed. They devour
the Gauois, Echo de Paris, and Eclair be-
cause these papers respond to their own
sentiments.
I have just learned that the secret dos
sier contains shocking reports of the spies
of German prince who has filled high DO
sitions under the emperor during the last
twenty years, and one of them in Paris.
a city he often visits.
There is only one prince answering to
this description, Chancellor Won Hohenlohe.
The police spies who informed the intelli-
gence department at the war office of the
princes secret doings did not attempt to
establish a connection between them and
the Dreyfus case But one must suppose
that the sole object has been to prevent the
dossier ever being published 1t would be
necessary to go to seutonis for parallels
of the horrors with which this famous OF
infamous collection of documents reeks.
As the matter stands think NJ Demange
now feels that the two dossiers furnish him
with case too strong for even the officers
to resist. Anyway he looks real hopeful