The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-09
FRANCE IS UNEASY s
TROUBLE MAY FOLLOW A VERDICT
IN THE DREYFUs CASE.
Regiments Are Ordered In Read
iness to Proceed to Rennes ON the
First Sign of Trouble Mt That
PlaceA Scion OF the Royal Servian
House Testiaes, Making q Flat
Footed DenunciatiOn of the Ac-
cused-M. Labori Makes u Request
Which Will Delay the Trial.

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Dreyfus court-martial trial comes with
in sight the French government is be-
ginning to display fear that the verdict
may give rise to trouble and orders
have just been received for two regi-
ments of infantry and one of cavalry,
| already within hail of Rennes, to hold
| themselves in readiness to proceed to
that town at the first sight of mani
festation Of trouble at that place.
The anti-D reyfusard organs, by their
anti-fOreign articles, have added to the
enemies Of the foreigners, and there is
nc doubt that foreign journalists will
be the first victims of the mob-not 80
much Anglo-Saxons as Austrian, Ger
man and Russian Jews, who form a
majority Of the representatives Of
their respective countries.
The feature of the trial was the testi-
mony Of Eugene Cernuschi, who came
out with f1at-footed denunciation. of the
accused, which, even though it may
eventually be proved q fairy tail, is
bound for the moment to exercise a
malignant influence upon the French
people, who have not seen Cernuschi,
and are thus unable to form a personal
opinion of the man who hurled these
alluciations against Dreyfus. Cernu-
schi's appearance is undoubtedly
against him. Nobody even suspects
that he is what he claims to be, a scion
Of the royal Servian house. On the
contrary, one would take him to be q
groom dressed in his best Sunday suit.
1t was remarked that as soon as he
had delivered his testimony and NJ.
Labori had asked to have him ex-
amired in session behind closed doors
in order that he might be finished If
guilty of perjury, he left the court
rOom and was not see again. His
testimony, which was in the form Of
a letter to the president Of the court
martial, was most unequivocal. He
claimed that on three distinct occasions
twice in France and once in Geneva
he was told by n high-placed foreign
officer that Dreyfus had communicated
reasonable documents to a foreign
power. In the third instance Cernu-
sci said the officer he'd shown him doc
uments emanating from Dreyfus. and
that this officer left France hurriedly
two days prior to the arrest of Drey-
fus. The introduction of a foreigner
as a witness for the prosecution gave
u an ORpNA SNAlly " SuUI1l1I lAAc
most important request he has made
throughout the trial. a request, which,
if granted by Gel. Jouaust, though.
this is extremely doubtful, would Ger
tainly have mOLlentous consequence.
NJ. Labori announced his intention, in
view of the step taken by the prosecu-
ton in calling foreign evidence, to ask
that inquiry should be made through
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 court-martial is
scarcely likely to approve. In any
case the application means the length
ening Of the trial for several weeks 81
Cernuschi will be heard to-day be-
had closed doors. At the same time
there will probably be an examination
OF the secret dossier, to which Capt.
C:lgGet referred and which M. Labori
Immediately asked to have produced in
court. This dossier consists of twelve
or fourteen documents, and it is di :
cult to see why. if they had any value,
the etat major have not had them pro.
duced earlier. The session ended by
an exposure by NJ. Hennion, chief of
the Paris detectives, Of the ~disgraceful
tactics of the etat major in ~suppressing
his report in favor of Capt. Dreyfus
and showing a document more or less
against him.
An Impudent Adventurcr.
Vienna, Sept. 6. - The Neue Freie
Presse declares that no such family
exists as Cernuschi, the alleged de-
|scendent of Servian royalty, who testi-
fed at Rennes yesterday, claims as his
ancestors. The paper asserts that If
his other statements are equally false
he can only be an impudent adventur-