The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
FRIENDS PLEASED.
Dreyfusards Think
His Case Gains
in Strength.
LIKE TOP-SHELF FICTION.
That Is Way Emily Craw-
ford tharacterizes
Secret Dossier.
LIKE TOP-SHELF FICTION.

Copyright, 1899, The Associated Press.)
Rennes, Aug, 11-An the notable
Dreyfusites here are satisfied with the
result OF the examination Of the secret
dossier. They have urged their news
paper friends in Paris to clamor for full
publicity. knowing that If it is granted.
the military and nationalist parties will
be utterly disgraoed. They are con-
WINGED that the diplomatic and war
office dossiers TEEN with forgeries. OF
course, their impressions are derived
from the five counsel present at the ex-
animation of these precious papeUs.
Publicity would mean the pillory for
Gen. De Boisdeffre and company. They
would be pelted with their own foul
eggs, while Capt. Dreyfus would be
cleared in the face of the whole world.
The military caste here is furious at
the turn things are taking. The cores
pendent of a Russian paper told me
that in a cafe frequented by officers, he
unfolded the Dreyfus Aurore to read
it. All the military men near by
scowled at him in a marked manner,
and after coughing and otherwise show
ing their disapproval went in a body to
the other end of the cafe, as if the Rus
sian was leper. All the officers at the
military club came on the club balcony
when a bundle of Dreyfusite journals
was being burned in the street, and
they approved the performance. One
now sees the wisdom of the order for
bidding officers not attached to the gar
rison to stay here during the trial
hear that in unclean imaginings, the
secret military dossier exceeds the
worst top shelf literature. To secure sec
recy, the scribes who worked for Henry
and his friends did not hesitate to forge
letters from high diplomatic person
ages. Nearly score of love letters from
lady high in the diplomatic sphere
were supposed to have been seized in
the dispatch box of an embassy during
transmission to Berlin The person
whom she is represented as having as
correspondent was at attache of an
embassy there and much younger than
the lady, who is made to appear inn
passioned, quite an Eloise. Of course,
she mentions the Dreyfus affair and
asks the attache to help to whitewash
the unfortunate captain.
Nj. Jaures expects that there will be
a great exposure of a conspiracy against
the republic and that the high-handed
measures of the present government
against certain generals will be more
than justified by the coming revela-
tons
The examination of the diplomatic
dosSier was concluded this morning
Dreyfus, on leaving the lyceum, looked
brighter than he had ever previously
appeared. Tomorrow's proceedings will
be memorable in the history of the af-
fair
Maitre Demange has lost no opportu
nifty to conciliate the seven judges. He
has let himself be interviewed In order
to say nice things about them. He re-
members that the seven are ignorant Of
law, always ready to sacrifice equity to
authority, quick to scout at the rules Of
evidence and the members of a caste
who think they have been attacked by
Jews, cosmopolitans and foreigners.
Some Of them boast of not having read
the report of the inquiry before the
court of cessation, because they thought
it published at the cost of a syndicate
and intended to cast odipm on the
army.
Maitre Labor is naturally sanguine
and has always hoped; but can gather
that both counsel still see that the
judges are deeply and strongly preju
diced against the prisoner and will try
to condemn him on his looks, if all legal
evidence breaks down.
All the officers now read the Petit
Journal, which they had never looked
at before the Dreyfus affair. The venom
and vitriol of the Intransigeant are
grateful to them, because employed
against their enemies real or supposed.
They devour the Gaulois, Echo de
Paris and Eclair because these papers
respond to their own sentiments. Maitre
Damange therefore has but a signal full
crum-the pleasure every human being
takes in hearing himself praised.
l have just learned that the secret
dossier contains shocking reports of the
spies of a German prince, who has
filed high situation under the empire
during the last twenty years, and one of
them in Paris a city he often visited
There is only one prince answering to
this description, Chancellor Won He
henlohe. The police spies, who informed
the intelligence 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 OBJ
ject has been to prevent the dossier
ever being published 1t would be neces-
sary to go to Suetonius for parallels Of
the horrors with which this famous, or
Infamous collection of documents reeks
AS matters stand. think Maitre De-
mango now feels that the two dossiers
furnish him with a case too strong for
even the officers to resist. Anyway, he
looks really hopeful.
EMILY CRAWFORD.