The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-30

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the word report had been applied to a
document not possessing the character Of
| the report?
| s.It is not for me to accuse or excuse,
| replied the General; s1 confine myself to
/ pointing out to the Court that the cons
versation repeated occurred in May, that
| is to say, at the time the invest
! Of the Court Of Cessation was already
known. For my part. onlyy intervened
because French officers have been ar
raigned, and when, being accused, French
officers have the right to reply eek
| citement)
The General then returned to his seat
and General Deloye, Director of Artil-
| lery at the War Office, was called to the
| witness bar He repeated his explana-
tions given before the Court Of Cessation
as to the various peculiarities OF the ar
tillery, particularly with reference to the
brake of the ..120 short guns. The witness
said he considered that, in 1894, It would
have been impossible for any officer serv-
ing with his regiment to communicate
| anything in regard to the brake OF this
gun He added that although the gun
was in use at Rennes, the officers form
ling the court Martial among whom was
| had only the yaguest ideas about this
gun. while in 1894 the details of the
sppneumatie brake could only have been
known to very few officers.
The Court closely questioned General
Deloye and a Judge asked when it was
! known that the German shell 6 G 81
presented analogies to the Robin shell?
General Deloye--"In 1896
The T,,5esa-zssSJnf raforeS 1904
General Deloye-'. n o.
The Judge-''It was the information in
regard to the pneumatic brake, contained
in the provisional Instructions for the 120
short gun, which was communicated?
General Deloye-''Y Yes
The Judge-'.Was 1t possible for an Off
General Deloye-.It was not impossible
if he adduced q plausible pretext
The Judge-"W Was the brake manufac-
tured at Bourges?''
General Deloye-. -.sYes, at the foundry
The Judge-sAnd the Robin shell?'
General Deloye--'At the Gunnery
NJ Demange-sWas the distance be-
tween the two establishments great?"
General Deloye-The foundry was con-
When Dreyfus was asked if he had any
thing TO say he replied:
1 do not intend to discuss the terms
of the bordereau, nor advance theories
about it. 1t must be known what Is in
the notes and what is their nature and
their value before theories can be sug-
gested"
Mention has been made of the 120
shot gun. / state briefly for the second
time all that knew in 1SS9-a890 at Bourges
of this gun. knew the principle of the
| pneumatic brake.
General Mercier's deposition recalled
the fact that he was Inspector General at
Bourges in 1890. He must remember the
lecture given in the presence Of all the
officers both of the gunneIy school and
foundry and all the departments OF
Bourges and the officers Of the garrison
ture given on the subject of the pneu-
matte brake, of which he made the GUS
tomary rough sketch. This is to be found
in the St. Oyr lectures All my knowledge
Of the. pneumatic brake was derived
from the lectures.
AS regards the brake itself i have
the Gunnery School at Bourges and once
In the School of War. I have not seen it
IN action. have not seen the '120 short
gun fred have never been present at
attended.
Mention has also been made of the
shrapnel shell of 1891. The knowledge of
General Deloye on this point is much
more extensive than mine and every
thing he has said is quite correct. In
1894 I studied the shell and in a neces-
sarily incomplete study reached the COM
clusi0n that the shell of the 1891 pattern
was shell in which the bullets were kept
IN place by Smoke-generat1ng SUBS stance
intended to produce dense clouds Of
smoke on bursting in order TO facilitate
range finding. These are the conclusions
reached in 1891 and l chronicled them in
a report made at the time
When the prisoner was reseated Major
Carriere announced that he had received
a letter from General Chamion informing
him that by order OF the Minister of War
the Third Artillery Department had pre-
pared dossier of the documents the de-
fense requested and that those documents
could be submitted to the Court by Gem
eral Deloye under the same conditions as
observed in regard to the secret dossier.
The Major, therefore, asked the Court 10
sit in secret. or behind closed doors.
M. Demange asked that Majors Hart
man and Ducros be allowed to attend
when General Deloye communicated the
documents.
After the Court had deliberated in pri-
vate Colonel Jouaust announced that it
would sit in secret tomorrow morning, in
order 10 consider the dossier, and that
Majors Hartman and Ducros were au-
thorzed to attend.
The court adjourned at 11:15 o'clock.