Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-16
PLANS Of TOULON
FORT|F|CATIONS.
A London Correspondent Obtains
Nearly 100 of Them and Other
Compromising Documents
THERE IS TREASON SOMEWHERE.
Disclosures Promise to Create a Sen.
sation as Great as That ia the
Dreyius Case

Paris, May 16.-The Mathis London
correspondent having obtained nearly a
hundred authentic plans Of the FORTH
cations of Touon, besides other com.
promising documents. that paper this
morning begins the publication OF the
history of treason affair which seems
likely 10 exceed In Importance the Of
lenses with which Capt Dreyfus was
charged
On April q the correspondent received
q letter written I'm queer semi French
semi-ltalian largon and signed Fra
COLA, Pietro telling him that the writ
err, who was employed at a hotel had
been acting as guide to two person,
VINO mad come TO London to sell a large
parcel OF documents Of the highest Inn
portance concerning French naval de-
lenses. The letter stated that the men
had gone TO Brussels, leaving the writ
en- pcnniless, He, therefore, wanted To
negotiate for the transfer of certain
documents but was unwilling to treat
directly with the French government,
preierring the deal with the Matin or
some other newspaper.
The correspondent thought the Inter
was probably a begging trick but re-
Piled, addressing his answer To the most
office, To be called for and making an
appointment, which Fragola duly Kent
The mans desperate state Of hunger
evidenced his sincerity, Fragola told
the following story:
lie was formerly, he said, employed
at the war ministry In Rome but be-
came compromised I'm q case OF espiou.
age and was sentenced 10 six months
imprisonment. subsequently he cam,
TO London, living from hand To mouth.
Secondly he had acted AS guide ana
secretary TO two men Of Italian origin
win one of whom, uaturali2ed French
citizen, he had formerly been acquaint-
ed at the war ministry In Rome Both
Of these men, FragOla said, worked for
foreign governments and had some-
times sold important secrets TO Ger.
many at high prices. The Italians
name was Cesaro Colo and that OF the
naturalzed Frenchman Jcremie Mesqui.
The latter had long been a contractor
on public works at TOulOn They had
gone 10 Brussels five days ago, leaving
him entirely without means Of living.
lie found after their departure that
Colo had left documents behind ana
these he wanted 10 sell.
FragoIa thereupon produced So plans
of the Toulon forts, some Of them the
French originals and other accurate
N'Il'N maui ct Nslf llhNdl NuI lnlnlS-
try, He also had I'm his possession a
list Of plans Of Chorbourg, Brest and
Toulon with typewritten instructions
alleged by FragolO TO have emanated
from the German stan, concerning the
marking of batteries OF artillery There
was also a letter appointing a reu-
dezyous at the Thuringcr hof, Berlin,
for Nov, 10, signed "N' TO this was at
taChed a card inscribed Felix Fried
rich Scholtz"
The Mathis correspondent gave Fra.
COLA few shillinEs and persuaded hirr
to leave the documents I'm his hands IN
order that an examination OF them
might be made The next morning he
took them TO the French embassy, where
the naval attache declared them TO Doe
absolutely genuine,
The Matin win continue its rcvela-
tlons tomorrow,