Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-15
.FUR0RE. IN PARIS
KRUGER, EXPOSITION, SPIES AND
FASHION JUMBLE.
HUNTING A SECOND DREYFUs.
Tempest in a Teapot Over Their
Beloved Artillery Secret Getting
Out. tst

New York. Nov. ia special to the
Tribune from Paris says: ,pe
The close of the eXposition,e the reas-
embling of parliament and the welcome
IN preparation for eX-PreSident Kruger
causes a popular effervescence, in Paris.
and the nationalist press, notably Ernest
Judet in the Petit Journal, and Lucien
Millevoye in La Patrie are working for
all it is worth as an instrument to dis
credit the present administration. This
accounts for the storm of Indignation in
the boulevard press about the sensa-
ttonal stories according to which the
United States war department obtained
throu,h it's agent in France, complete
p;s...s of the secret mechanism of the 6S
miiiimetre field gun with which the
French field artillery is equipped. There
is a fresh outburst of the periodical
"spy MANIA" and the sensational accu-
sations against the United states war
department are accepted as gospel truth
On the other hand, not the slightest i'm
portance is attached to the report by the
war department officials here. 1t is said
that during the recent manoeuvers. four
United States ordnance officers besides
Lieut.. Mott We're. at the request OF Gen.
Horace Porter, the United States ambas-
sador. given every reasonable facility py
the French military authorities to OBJ
tain professional information, although
as may readily be understood, several
demands. such, for instance, as a request
to inspect the French smokeless powder
factory. We're politely refused. Six field
batteries supplied with the new 70
millimetre gun took part in the man
oeuyers at Chartres in September and
all the foreign officers present, includ-
ing Lieut.. Mott, We're allowed to see the
| guns but not to minutely inspect their
mechanism. OF course, full reports We're
made by the foreign officers, including
ours, to their respective governments. 1t
must be noted, however, that the stand
ing instructions to the United States
military attaches here from the war car
partment are to restrict the quest for
informa ton to honest, above board
methods. The Petit Journal alludes to
the case of Lieut.. Burop, United States
military attache here in 1891, who, was
recalled after being accused of COM
bining with the military attaches of
Germany and Italy to secure French
military secrets. The Petit Journal
states that no one will be duped by ex-
plantations offered by the United States
authorities.
the United States, although it is fero-
I ciously bitter against NJ. Waldeck-R Rous-
seau Gen. de Gallifet and Gen. Andre.
the present minister of war for Destroy
ing the efficiency OF secret service
branches of the general staff, the ia
nous second bureau, which it considers
| the best safeguard for preventing. for
eign governments from obtaining pos
session of French military secrets.
M. Millevoye in La Patrie says: The
United States government, to which this
| important secret of the French field gun
| has been revealed, will no doubt defend
| itself from charges of completely with
the spies or secret agents who procured
the information, but the evil, neverthe-
| less is accomplished"
La Patrie then asks: "Who is the sec
ond Dreyfus? Where is he? Where
does he hide? Who knows him? Who
will denounce him."