Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-03

How poor Roumania was forced by
threat of Russian invasion to Join the
entente allies while Russian and
French consprators in high places with
the alleged connivance Of the COM
mand OF the entente forces at Saloniki
left her to be devoured by Germany ID
told by an ex-Rttache writing In the
WASHINGTON Post. who asserts that
General Sarrail has been recalled from
2 command of the Saloniki armies TO
stand trial for his completely, in the
Caillaux socialist conspiracy.
Not many months ago. when former
Premier CaillauS. thru his close conf
tant and alter ego, Louis Malvy, minis
ter or the interior and member OF the
| war council. was able to exercise a
very powerful influence upon the
! French government, he almost sue
ceeded in carrying thru his amazing
scheme of bringing back Gen. Maurice
Sarral and of investing him, like
Joftre. with the ranking Of marshal OF
upon the allies as commanderin chief
of all the entente forces in Franco.
| When Georges Clemenceau last
month undertook to form an admins
tration, with the avowed purpose of
! calling to account and of bringing to
( trial Louis Malvy for all the treasona-
BILE and dishonest acts of which he had
rendered himself guilty While forming
part and parcel of the various cabin
cts that had succeeded one another
since the year before the war, l had
occasion TO express in these columns
the conviction that with the old tiger
at the helm. Joseph CaillauN would also
be brought 10 the bar of Justice and
THAT Gen. Sarrail would be recalled
from Saloniki but without receiving
any other command or promotion.
Facts Bear Out Prophecy.
There predictions have come true.
Former Premier Caiilaux is about to
be placed on trial for his life before
military tribunal. on charges of trea-
sonable intercourse with the German
enemy in Switzerland and elsewhere,
orders to that effect having been given
on Sunday last by Gen. Dubail the
military governor of Paris: while Gen.
Sarrail is on his way back to France
may have arrived there ere this letter
appears in pr!nt-not to receive the
baton of marshal. but TO face court
marshal. in which his epaulettes, nay,
even his liberty and his existence, are
at stake. \
II may be regarded as a singular
conjunction of events that Sarraifs re-
turn to his native land should take
place at the very same time as the re-
ported success of a Russian bolshevist
plot against King Ferdinand Of Rou-
mania. And should greater misfor-
tunes he in store for the gallant ruler
of Rouman!a, and for his heroic, de-
voted and beautiful queen, than those
which they have already been called
upon TO suffer since the autumn Of
1916, it viii go very, hard with Gen.
Sarrail. For the responsibility Of the
invasion OF Roumania and for all the
appalling sufferings which she has
been called upon to endure at the
hands of the Germans, OF the Austr!-
ans, and especially OF the Bulgarians.
has been laid at his door. ~
BoIo Scandal Bares Plot.
The charges against Sarrail hang
together with those brought against
Joseph Caillaux, Louis Malvy, Bolo
"Pasha," and all the remainder OF their
unsavory crew, some Of whom are un-
der lock and key, two or three OF whom
are dead, under mysterious. circurn-
stances, while the others are fug!-
| tves from justice. Indeed. had it not
| been for the Vigo and Bolo- scandal,
vigorously and periodically exploited
| by Leon Daudet, we might never have
heard the true story of the betrayal Of
Roumania. and Of the nefarious pro-
German, anti French, antlentente, and
therefore anti-American, intrigues OF
former Premier Caillaux and OF former
Minister Of the Interior Malvy
Last May g. Capt Ladoux. Of the In
tellisence department Of the general
staff, happened by mere chance to ar
rive at Pontarlier. on the Franco
Swiss frontier. when a traveller Of the
name of Duval, whose passports. fur
nished by the French government,
were in due order, was held up for
further examination by the French
frontier military police, who had been
somewhat puzzled by the frequency OF
his trips between Paris and Switzer-
land. On the matter being reported to
Capt. Ladoux. he ordered the man to
i be searched, and discovered among his
papers a check for a large amount.
The names Of the bank on which it was
drawn. and Of the signer excited the
suspicious Of the captain to such an
extent that he retained possession
| thereof for further investigation, but
allowed Duval to proceed on his jour
| ney to Paris. tho under surveillance.
MaIvy Tries to Get Check.
| An attempt was made by Louis
Malvy. then minister of the interior to
recover the check for Duval, on the
| ground that he was acquainted both
with the latter and with the men in
whose favor it was drawn, a certain
| Vigo, editor Of paper of insidiously
pacifist and anti entente tendencies,
and which subsequent developments
| showed to have been literally subsi-
died by Caillaux from his large pri-
! vate fortune and by Malvy from the
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