The Topeka state journal., 1899-08-30
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right to reply" (Excitement)
GEN DE LOYE CALLED.
The general then returned to his seat
and Gen. de Loye, director of artillery
witness bar. He repeated his explana-
tiOnS given before the court of cassa-
tiOn as to the various peculiarities of
the artillery, particularly with refer
ence to the brake of the ''120'' short
guns The witness said he considered
that in 1894 it would have been impOS-
SIble for any officer serving 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 forming the
court martial among whom was an
officer commanding a '120" short gun,
had only the Vaguest ideas about this
gun, while in 1894 the details of the
pneumatic brake" could have been
known to very few officers.
The court closely questioned Gen. de
Loye and a judge asked when it was
known that the German shell G. 81 pre-
sented anaIogies to the Robin shell.
General de LOye-In 1896.
The judge-Not before 1894?
General de Loye-No.
The judge-It was the information in
regard to the pneumatic brake coz
tanned IN the provisional Instructions
for the '12O short" gun, which was
communicative
General de Loye-Yes.
The judge-Was it possible for any. Of
hcer there of the headquarters staff to
procure the firing manual? .
he adduced a plausible pretext.
Col. Jouaust-Was the brake manufac-
Gen De Loye-Yes, at the foundry.
The judge-And the Robin shell?
Gen. De Loye-At the gunnery school.
NJ. Demange-Was the distance between
the two esta abl1shments great?
Gen. De LOye-The foundry was con-
tiguous to the gunnery school.
When Dreyfus was asked if he had any
thing to say he replied:
J.
II do not intend to discuss the terms
sboIIt if It must be Known %hat IL in tif
notes and what their nature and their
Mention has been made Of the s12O
short gun I state briefly for the second
time all that knew in 1SS9-9O at Bourges
pneumatic brake.
Gen. Mercier's deposition recalled the
fact that he was inspector general at
lecture given in the presence of ali the
offieers both of the gunnery school and
foundry and all the departments of
Bourges and to the officers of the garrf-
son artillery. He must recOllect the final
lecture given on the subject of the pneu-
tomary rough sketch. This is to be found
in the st. Cyr lectures. All my knowledge
of the pneumatic brake was derived from
''As regards the brake itself have seen
it twice, once in the court yard of the
gunnery school at Bourges and once in
the school of war. have not seen it in
gun fired. I have never been present at
the firing trials, but the prObationers at
tended
Mention has also been made of the
shrapnen shell of 1891 The knowledge of
General De LOye on this point is much
more extensive than mine and everything
he has said is quite correct. In 1884 L
studied the shell and in necessarily in
complete study reached the conclusion
that the shell of 1891 pattern was q shell
in which the bullets were kept in place
by smoke generating substance intended
to produce dense clouds of smoke on
bursting in order to facilitate range find
ing. These are the conclusions I reached
in 1891 and chrOnicled them in a report
made at the time"
When the prisoner was reseated Major
Carriere announced that he had received
letter from Gen. Chamoin Informing
him that by order of the minister of war
the third artillery department had pre-
pared a dossier of the documents the de-
tense requested and that these documents
could be submitted to the court bv Cen
De Loye under the same conditions as
observed in regard to the secret dossier.
The major therefore asked the court to
sit in secret or behind closed doors.
M Demange asked that Ma aiors Hart
mann and DucrOs be allowed to attend.
when Gen De Loye communicated the
documents after the court had deliberated
In private, Col JOuaust announced that
it would sit in secret tomorrow morning
in order to consider the dossier and that
Majors Hartmann and DucFos were auth
OriZed to attend
The court adjourned at Ills o'clock.