Arizona republican., 1899-09-05
When tbe Verdict in the Drey-
 fuS Case Is Announced.
THE MILITARY IN READINESS
Suspected That Hob Vengeance Will Be Directed Against Foreign Press RepreSenfafivcS-Damaa- ing Story Against inc Prisoner Told by an Unknown Han Is Re- ccIved with IncreduIifYe

Rennes, Sept As the end of the
 Dreyfus trial comes within sight the
 French government is beginning to
 display fear that the verdict may
 give rise to troubles, and orders have
 just beenzreceived by two regiments of
 infantry and one cavalry regiment al
 ready within hail of .Rennes. to hold
 themselves inireadiness. to march on
 the town at the first sign of disorder
 and to occupy all strategic points and
 repress all manifestations in their in
 organs by their anti-foreign articles
 have already singled out foreigners as
 enemies of the country, and there is
 little doubt that foreign journalists.
 will be the first victims of the violence
 of the mob, not so much the Anglo
 Saxons as the Austrians. German and Russian Jews, who form a majority of the press representative of their re- spective countries.
 Today's session opened rather badly 
 upon the defense in the advent of an Austrian political refugee, Eugene Cerenuschi, who came out with flat footed denunciation of the accused, which even though it may eventually be proven pure fairy tale, is bound for the moment to exercise a malig- nant influence upon the French peo- pie. Cerenuschi's appearance is unde- niably against him. Nobody even sus- poets that he is what he claims to be, a scion of the royal Servian house. On the contrary, one would take him to be a groom dressed in his best Sunday suit.
 It was remarked that as soon as he had delivered his testimony and M. Labori had asked to have him put on oath at tomorrow's session behind closed doors in order that he might be punished if guilty of perjury, he left the court room and was not seen again
 Cerenuschi's testimony, which was in the form of a letter to the president of the court martial, Col. Jouaust, was most unequivocal. He claimed that l on three distinct occasions, twice in | France and once at Geneva, he was ] told by a high placed foreign officer | that Dreyfus had communicated treas enable documents to a foreign power. In the third instance Cerenuschi said the officer showed him documents em- anating from Dreyfus and that this of ficer left France hurriedly two days 1 prior to the arrest of Captain Dreyfus. This allusion was evidently to Col. the military attache of the German embassy in Paris in 1894, whose movements were coinci- dent with those described as the move ments of the officer in Cerenuschi's -
 Now this evidence is of transcen- dental importance to the prosecution and it is incredible, unless -Cerenuschi is proved to be lhumbug that the gov ernment commissary, Major Carriere, should have admitted that he had re- ceived letter from him offering the important testimony, but would have thrown it aside on the ground of its coming from a political refugee The deposition evoked expressions of One suspicious feature was the fact that although the witness said he could not speak French fluent ly, his letter to Col. Jouaust asking an to testify was drawn up in perfect french.
 M. Labori announced his intention, in. view of the step taken by the prose cution in calling foreign evidence, to ask that inquiry should be made through regular diplomatic channels as to whether the documents men toned in the bordereau were actually and if so, by whom. This involves an application to the German government which the court martial is scarcely likely to approve. ,
 ESTER II AI4ZY'S FEAR