Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-05
TROOPSABOUT RENNES
Ordered Ready to Act For Fear
of Rioting.
FOREIGNERS MAY BE ATTACKED.
kustro-Hungarian Refugees Testimony
Against Dreyfus - LabOri Said He
Would Ask For Inquiry to a Foreign
Power l.uplioity of General STAFF.

RENNEs Sept. 5.-The French gov
Grnment Is beginning to display a fear
that the verdict iii the Dreyfus court
martial may give rise to troubles, and
orders have Just been received by two
regiments of infantry and one cavalry
regiment, already within hall OF
RenDe:. to hold themselves Ill readiness
to march on the town at the first sign
of disorder to occupy all strateglcal
points and to repress manifestations IN
their Inception.
The local anti Dreyfusard organs, by
their anti-foreign articles, have already
singled out foreigners as enemies OF the
country, and there is little doubt tnat
foreign Journalists will be the first vic
Tins of the violence of the mob-not so
much anglo Saxons as Austrian, Ger
man and Russian Jews, who form a
majority OF the press representation OF
their respective countries.
The first witness called was an Aus
tro- Hungarian refugee named Cernus-
Chi.
In Cernuschi' S testimony, which was
i'll the form of a letter to the president
of the courtmartial, Colonel Jouaust, he
claimed that Oh three distinct occasions,
twice i'll France and once at Geneva, he
was told by high placed foreign officer
that Dreyfus had communicated treason
able documents to a foreign power. In
the third instance Cernuschl said the
officer showed him documents emanat.
ing from Dreyfus, and that this officer
left France hurriedly two days prior to
the arrest of Captain Dreyfus. The al
lusion was evidently to Colonel
Schwartzhoppen, the military attache
of the German embassy i'll Paris in 1894,
whose movements were coincldent with
these described as the movements of the
officer OF Cernuschi's deposition.
NJ. Labori asked to have him put on
doors. This was i'll order that he might
be punished, if guilty of lying.
NJ. Labori announced his intention,
in view of the step taken by the prose-
cution in calling foreign evidence. to
the regular diplomatic channels as to
whether the documents mentioned in
the bordereau were actually communi-
Gated, and if SO, by whom. This in
wolves an application to the German
government, which the courtma1tlal is
scarcely likely to approve.
matician, cornered General Gonse on
the latter'S falsitied version of NJ. Hada
mard's renlai Ks concerning Captain
Dreyfus, ana the manner i'll which
Gonse squirmed and his woebegone ap-
pearance almost aroused pity for him.
General Roget also appeared to begin
to feel at last the cruel strokes the etat
major have been receiving Of late.
M. Labor began cross-eXamination
of General Gonse regarding certain
document in the secret dossier, to
which General Gonse had referred, but
which had not been submitted to the
court. NJ. Labori not receiving salts.
factory answers and finding that Colo
mel Jouaust declined to allow him to
press the matter home in the way he
wished, became extremely indignant
and protested with considerable warmth
against Colonel Jouaust's veto Of his
questions. This caused little scene
between Colonel Jouaust and M. La
bori. Finally the latter asked why
certain dispatch from the French am
bassador at Rome relative to the pay
ment of money to Major Count Ester
hazy by an Italian agent had not been
included in the secret dossier presented
to the court.
General Gonse replied that he had
not considered the dispatch of sufficient
importance to be included in the secret
Gossier.
Colonel Jouaust here again refused
to allow some of NJ. Labori's questions.
Commandant Cuignet, who compiled
the secret dossier, came to the bar and
declared that he had omitted all docu-
men;s from a, road, because foreigners
were interested in deceIving us"
Commandment Cuignet added that an
other dispatch existed relating to a con-
vrl,atlon between a foreign sovereign
R., French military attache. i'll the