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New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Everything Went
AI Swimingly Until

Following his return to France came
the great defeatist campaign which so
nearly disrupted the country. Every
thing seemed going swimmingly for Gail
laux, until July 7, 1917. On that day
Maurice Barres seized the opportunity
to interrupt Loais Malvy, Minister of the
Interior, during speech in the Chamber
of Deputies, with the incisive demand
What action does the Minister of the
Interior intend to take against those
scoundrels of the Bonnet Rouge"
A month later Miguel Almereyda.
editor of the defeatist Bonnet Rouge"
was arrested, and in another week was
found dead in his cell. There followed
week by week long series of arrests
until the whole Bonnet Rouge" crowd
had been arrested, Bolo Pacha was under
lock and key and Malvy was out of the
government
Meantime, people were asking: "What
of Caillaux?" And on December 10
Clemenceau, then Premier, informed the
Cabinet that he had decided Cailaux
should be prosecuted. 1t took some work
to make the Chamber of Deputies sus-
pend the parliamentary immunity of the
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md Finally, the Case Against Cail1aux Himself
Objectionable to M. Caillaux thsy Wa.
deprived Of all authority"

Objectionable to M. Caillaux they WA.
deprived Of all authority"
Malvy was sentenced to banisb,..-.
for five years and it seemed as thorsS
all was ready for the trial of ca;I,.ss
himself. But the government baa ...,,
in the tolls Senator Humbert, ex-par,Ss l'
Of Bolo in the ownership of the pousss-,
newspaper 'Le Journal" His tria, M ;.s
come first to complete the CLOSING n q,
net around Caillaux.
The government has not vet d;scl,..,
the evidence it holds against Hurnhss. 49,
but one may guess from an artic,o !:
Gustave Herve's paper, LA yieto;ra - y
After detailing Humbert's earlier an.,
ings in the purchase OF "Le journal y
Herve continues:
"To suppose that man of his sm...,
had been fooled twice by the Ce,m.s-
would be to accuse him of being sinnls
ton, and that he is not. But to believe :.
the other hand, that he was bound n c.r
laux by a promise Of Ministry of Va,
Munitions when Caillautism unmasked a.
batteries and arrived at power; to bel;ev.
that one day his campaign for cannon a,a
munitions, at a sign from the invisib,.
chief, would be replaced by campavn
against England and in favor of a sena,s..
peace is so injurious to the patriotism -
the Senator from the Meuse that it canno.
be thought Off
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preparations for the projected coup
d6tGt were made.
Louis J. Malvy, ex-Minister of the In
terror, furnished the material for the ex-
position.
For more than twenty years he had
been Cailaux's consistent creature AS
long ago as 1908 he was accused of con-
niving with Caillaux in the escape to
Mexico OF the notorious swindler
Rochette. At his trial three ex-Premiers,
Viviani, BRAND and Ribot, testified that
he was forced upon them against their
wills as Minister of the Interior 1t was
shown that he was the creature of Gail
laux, that it was Cailaux who put him
in the government and Cailaux in whose
interests he worked. One of the earliest
things brought out was that the defeat
lists had arrived at the point of creating
mutinies in the French army before they
were stopped in their work, and Malvy,
whose business it was to act, had done
nothing to stop the spread of defeatist
propaganda in the army, but, on the con-
trary, had subsidized from the funds of
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One Way of Saying
~ Treason
| reason

The next step in weaving the net is the
trial of Charles Humbert, Senator from
the Meuse, ex-politcal director of "Le
Journal" one of the most influential
papers in Paris, and for a short time
owner Of de Journal" on the charge Of
Intelligence with the enemy" which is
one way of saying treason.
Cailaux has been suspected since the
conclusion of the Agadir treaty between
France and Germany, in 1911. He was
Premier at that time, and by that treaty
France in exchange for the acknowledge
ment by Germany of predominating
French interests in Morocco ceded to
Germany 100000 square kilometres in
the French Congo, bordering on the
Kamerun. Caillaux was promptly accused
of selling out France to Germany, and the
common understanding in Paris was that
documentary proof was furnished at 4
Cabinet meeting in the shape Of secret
correspondence exchanged between Gail
laux and the German Foreign Office be-
hind the backs of the commissioners ne
gotiating the treaty.
When the war broke out in 1914 he
was temporarily in eclipse on account Of
the killing Of Castor Calmette, editor Of
Figaro" by Nine. Caillaux, and he did
not attract public attention until he un-
dertook voyage to Argentina in 1915.
At that time it was said he had been sent
on commercial mission by the govern
ment, and there were reports that the
mission had been established, in order to
get dangerous man as far as possible
from France. On the other hand, he
hardly reached Buenos Ayres when there
was a we'll defined rumor that Caillaux
was once more in communication with
Wilhelmstrasse through Count Lux
burg, the German Minister to Argentina.
and, in fact, the solid basis for the ru-
NOR has since been established by the
publication by the State Department in
Washington Of the notorious Luxburg
cablegrams. In 1915, however, the truth
was no more than rumor founded on
the general suspicion of Callaux.
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Washington Eagerly Watches
Events Overseas
But Gives Heed to Woman Suffrage, Cotton and Hog
Price Fixing and the Revenue
Bill

world to use a much larger percentage of
low grade cotton than has ever been used
heretofore, and correspondingly smaller
percentage Of the higher grades of cotton.
In the opinion Of Charles G. Brand who is
chairman of the distribution committee,
this greater use of the low grades of cot
ton will result in almost, if not entirely,
stretching small crop to meet the worlds
demand for cotton goods, and also by the
same process keep the price for cotton with
i'll what he regards as reasonable bounds
Every man, woman and child in the United
States, Canada and other Entente countries
is affected by the agreement on hog prices
reached this week between the food admin
istration and Hog Producers Association.
The agreement is elastic, in that the price
Will be determined each month 1t has been
fixed for October at SIS. so hundred pounds,
although hogs have sold this season as high
as $1,000, and the present price is about
$3.50.
1t is confidently expected by the food ad-
mlnstratlon that the price of corn, on which
the price of hogs is to be fixed at a rather
definite ratio, will be stabilized at not more
than $1.25 when the new crop comes in.
which would mean price for hogs of from
$3.50 to SIS hundred
The Senate Finance Committee has made
very slow progress on the revenue bill
TINS week, following its passage by the
House. 1t is assured now that the measure
Will not be law before election. and some
Senators think that it will scarcely be re-
ported from the committee before election.
he committee this week went the House
one better on exempting soldiers from the
income tax
The exemption will apply to all soldiers
pay without limitation as to amount. and
Will apply also to soldiers in active service
IN the field" in the United States as we'll
as to those overseas. The Senate commit
tee agreed with the House in not exempting
officers in the departments.
Woman suffrage advocates were again
disappointed this week. when, after it had
been announced that vote in the upper
House would be taken on the woman suf-
frage amendment, with every assurance of
Its final submission to the states for rati-
hcatlon, 1t was discovered that there still
were not quite enough votes to give it the
required wo-thrds majority
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I'll G Admitted His Friendship
Il IL With Bolo

In the Bolo trial Signor Sottolana,
friend Of Cavallini, the Italian traitor
who was convicted with Bolo and SEN
fenced to death, testified that Cavallini
had sent him letters from Italy ad-
dressed to Nine. Caillaux to be mailed in
Paris. Caillaux himself, called as a wit
ness, admitted his friendship with Bolo
and the authenticity of several letters
written to the traitor, one of which ex-
pressed an urgent desire to see Bolo
after his return from America.
Bolo was convicted and shot and the
relations between Caillaux and Bolo had
been firmly established in court. If Bolo
had gone free Caillaux might as we'll
have been released at the same time, but
with Bolo convicted it was felt that there
was little hope for Cailaux. The first
part OF the government programme had
been carried to a highly successful ter
mlnation. The foundations of the Call
laux case were deeply and firmly laid.
Next came the Bonnet Rouge" trial.
Here it was shown that Cailaux had
subsidized the defeatist paper, and it
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lished book on the League of Nations
scheme, and Scheidemann, the majority So
cialist leader, are suggested as new Min
listers
Count von Hertlng, the Imperial Chanccl-
lor, told the Main Committee of the Reichs-
tag that he had practically accepted Will
sons fourteen points in the speech he made
last February, but that the President had
not replied The Chancellor admitted the
situation was grave, but declared his con-
fidence in the ability Of the army to hold
firm and spoke optimstically about the sub
marine campaign.
Hertling came out strongly for the
League of Nations scheme, including dis
armament, the freedom Of the seas and
compulsory arbitration for the protection
of small nations. Incidentally, it is we'll
to record the fact that there is notable
growth of the League of Nations movement
in all European countries. Hertling is
frankly making another bid for peace un-
derstanding. We shall hear much more
along these lines in the next few months.
Hardly had the Inter-Allied Labor Con-
gress ended and Gomperss mission de-
parted for France, when the biggest indus
place. Defyng their leaders, who had com
promised with the government on the uues-
ton of wage increases. railway men ceased
work in many parts Of the country, Gripping
passenger and freight service and throwing
many war workers into idleness. Such a
situation made conditions intolerabe, in
terfered with the vigorous prosecution of
the war, and consequently the government
had q certain general support when it took
strong hand.
Besides the great railway strike there has
been labor trouble in the Clyde shipyards,
where shlpwrlghts and carpenters have
quit, and at Mersey River the coal passers
threw down their tools. The high cost of
living and the shortage of labor are the two
important factors in the situation. The
prices of food and clothing are now so high
that the workers declare they are unable
to live properly at their present wages.
After fifty months of war all European
belligerents are short of labor that prac-
tlcally every man and woman is essential
The workers know this, and they threaten
strikes, confident that their demands will
be granted.
Incident to the railroad strike has been
the reduction of the coal output, which is
bound to be felt later. The coal shipping is
almost as important to the prosecution of
the war as the armies themselves. The sup
ply of coal and ships is still far too low to
Justify any undue optimism
The enemy has no more intention of
abandoning the submarine campaign than
Foch has of fighting without aeroplanes.
IN fact, the Germans are concentrating on
the construction of submarines as never
before.
Four five weeks more will see the
heaviesA fghtlns Of 1918 over.
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was shown, also, that government SUBJ
sidy had been given to it by Malvy, Min
lister of the Interior, Caillaux's man in
istry Of the Interior was open to the
editors of the paper, and that they could
claim intimacy with Caillaux and visited
him at his country home near Manners.
The prosecutor declared that the German
banker, H. A. Marx, who paid over large
sums to Duval, the director of the 'Bon-
net Rouge" was in correspondence with
Caillaux. eve are not trying M Gail
laux yet" said the prosecutor, "but am
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
By Fred B. Pitney

TIME net Is Tightening about Joseph
Caillaux, ex-Premier Of France,
under arrest in the prison Of the
SAINTS on the charge of treason.
The chief holes in the Caillaux net, the
ones that have had to be knotted in with
elaborate care, are the Bonnet Rouge"
case, the Bolo Pacha case, the Malvy
case, the Humbert case and, finally, the
case against Caillaux himself.
So far, three of the five holes have been
reduced to impregnable security. The
record stands as follows:
In the Bonnet Rouge" case:
Miguel Almereyda, editor of the
Bonnet Rouge" committed suicide In
prison.
NJ. Duval, director of the Bonnet
Rouge" shot.
NJ Marion, assistant manager of the
Bonnet Rouge" sentenced to ten years
at hard labor.
Jacques Landau, reporter on the
Bonnet Rouge" eight years at hard
labor.
Goldsky, reporter, eight years at
hard labor.
Joucla, reporter, five years at hard
labor.
Vercasson, two years in prison and
5000 francs fine, sentence suspended.
Jean Leymarie, ex-director of the
Ministry of the Interior aud later head
Of the Secret Service, two years in
prison and fine of / 200 francs.
In the Bolo Pacha case:
Bolo Pacha shot
In the Maivy case:
Louis J. Malvy, ex-Minister of the
Interior, sentenced to five years BAN
ishment.
In addition, two minor gaps have been
securely knotted, as follows:
Sergeant PaiS-Seailles, an assistant
mier, and Captain Matthew, of the Gen
eral Staff of General Sarrail, sentenced
to fifteen months in prison.
Captain Ladoux, formerly chief of
the Intelligence Bureau at the Ministry
Of War, and Deputy Loustalot, friend
ard supporter of Caillaux, are under
arrest.
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Cause for the Widest
" Alarm

10 the Entente these victories are OF sur
prising magnitude. to the enemy they are
cause for the widest alarm The moral ef
feet on the Bulgars and Turks, who are dis
gusted with their treatment by Germany.
must be very great. This is proved by Bull
garia's plea for an armistice
Up to midwees equinoctia storms inter-
fered with the military operations in the
west, but still the movement of troops was
carried out on both sides of the line in an
tcipation of the resumption of fighting on
big scale as soon as the weather permits.
In local engagements on the old Somme
battlefield the British and French found the
German resistance stubborn, but progress
was made to the north and south of ST
Quentin. as we'll as to the west of Cambria
The British hold most of their positions Of
March 21
Mangin's great battle for the Chemin des
Danes died down with the French about a
mile and half short Of their goal. Re-
connoltring raids were made by many sec
torr, while the Belgians reported unusual
artillery activity on their front On the
front before Metz Baron Ardenne, the Der
liner Tageblatt" critic, reports the American
guns in position.
The political situation has grown exceed
lngly interesting. From Germany there has
come welter of rumors about impending
changes in the government, all of which
point to the retirement of Hertling and the
injection of some Socialist blood into the
'-.nistry. Solf, Erzberger, who has pub.
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compelled to pronounce his name every
time deal with case Of treason"

compelled to pronounce his name every
time deal with case Of treason"
Duval was shot and the other defend
ants were sentenced to various terms in
prison.
CaillauX was now besmirched with the
slime Of the lowest depths of defeatism.
At least there had been something spec
tacular about Bolo. He had a certain
air and manner and famboyant grace
of gesture. He breathed from time to
time the rarifed atmosphere of high
finance and glibly rolled millions on his
tongue. And he paid the penalty with
his life. He had the dignity of being
shot.
But one of Caillaux's friends on the
Bonnet Rouge" had sold himself for $50
and was sentenced to a few months in
prison.
So having shown the depths to which
Caillaux could descend and where he had
entangled himself irretrievably, the next
step was to go to the high places and
show the thoroughness with which the
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London Thrills to the Foch
Victories
The Publc's Attention Is Riveted the Struggle
Between the North Sea and
the Alps

over 10000 prisoners, ESQ guns and the
larger part Of Palestine in their possession.
Allenby's man9uvre, in cooperation with
the Arabs, ranks high among the finest
successes Of the war.
With the capture of Prilep, the Serbs.
French, Greeks, British and Italians, who
mad been based at Salonica in anticipation
OF an enemy push this fall, have won a
victory the extent of which cannot be meas
ured now. The Bulgarians have been
routed from Monastir to Lake Doiran, two
armies have been separated and conditions
approaching a debacle seem imminent
Macedonia is being rapidly cleaned and the
invasion of Bulgaria on large scale is
among the early probabilities
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

ex-Premier. On January 13, 1918, he
was taken to the prison Of the Sante.
Then, with the leader of the defeatists
behind the bars, the government began
to weave its net
The foundation was laid with the Bolo
Pacha case. There were shown the enor-
nous extent of the ranifcations of the
defeatist plots, the huge sums Of money
involved, with their source in Germany,
and the progress already made, threaten
ing the very existence Of France as an
independent nation.
Already, at the time Of Caillaux's ar
rest, reports Of the preliminary investi-
cations in his case had shown the
schemes he entertained for reestablish-
ing himself in power as the dictator Of a
defeated France, while in the letter of
General Dubail, at that time Military
Governor of Paris, asking for the arrest
Of Caillaux, it was said:
1. 1t has been discovered that in posses-
sion of nearly all the accused were great
number of letters emanating from Joseph
Caillaux which do not leave any doubt about
the relations existing between him and the
persons accused.
2. 1t is serious matter that a statesman
of such Importance as M. Callaux should
maintain close and intimate relations, which
cannot be contested, with French or foreign
adventurers.
3. The correspondence seized in the course
of the Investigation of Bolo Pacha is par
ticularly suggestive.
4. In this house Of the Bonnet Rouge"
where the safes we're full of German money,
Caillaux counted friends.
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the Ministry Of War the Bonnet Rouge"
the chief defeatist organ.

the Cnler de1eaClSt organ.
1t was brought out that anarchists,
Socialists, pacifsts and defeatists all
conducted their activities under the shell
ter of Malvy in the Ministry of the In
terror, thnt he would neither take any
action against them himself nor permit
any one else to act. Sebastien Faures
printed an interview he had with Malvy,
as follows:
3Reassure yourself cried the Minister.
'rhe Cabinet has persuaded the military au-
thorities to reaounce all the measures they
had intended to take against you and your
comrades. All the evidence against you,
your reports and letters, have been given to
me, and 1 have burned them ALL Every
thing has been reduced to ashes and the
matter is dead"
The prosecuting attorney in his pre-
liminary address to the Senate, sitting as
High Court of Justice, said:
"There is no reason to believe NJ. Malvy
betrayed France for money, but we have
more than sufficient evidence in his cuIpable
negligence and forgetfulness of his duty of
his having given most efficacious aid to
crimes committed against his country by
men whose treason has since been estab-
lished in the courts. And we cannot believe
he was ignorant Of what they intended
which makes him incontestably their ac-
complice."
Of Malvy's reason for his conduct the
prosecutor said
I'M. Malvy was not fitted by previous ex-
perience for place in the Cabinet 1t
seemed, rather, that he held the place of
Minister Of the Interior on account of being
the devoted servant Of political leader
who wanted to preserve his influence in the
state"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
By Carter Field
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune In,

Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune 1nc)
WASHINGTON, September 81
II INTEREST in the success of the big
x American offensive IL Champagne, in
M the British victories over the Turks,
and in the smashing of the Bulgar
army, with its later appeal for an arm'istce,
was much keener in Washington this week
than any excitement about happenings in
the Capital
With the exception Of woman suffrage,
most of the events of the week. while i'm
portant, were not colorful or spectacular.
The fight over fixing cotton prices, which
ferred to by Northern members of Congress
as threatened "second secession" by the
South, due to the bitter comments Of South
ern Senators and members of the House of
Representatives, has been all settled, Chair
man Bernard NJ. Baruch, of the War Indus
tries Board, thinks, by the appointment of
a special cotton distribution committee.
The Southern members were indignant at
any proposal to fix rrice for cotton as they
wished their constituents, who raise such
a large proportion of the world cotton crop,
to derive tie full benefit of the high price
that would follow on a world demand far in
excess of the present prospects of supply.
Even the fixing of price of so cents
pound distressed them, though this is three
times the price which they were clamoring
to have the government fix shortly after
the outbreak of the European war They
thought the law of supply and demand
would send the price much higher
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7 oud Pedal on Low
A Grade Cotton

The distribution committee is to do the
puying for the entire world. Foreign pur-
chasers will be handled through the War
Trade Board. All exports may be made only
on licenses. Domestic consumers will be
handled through the war service commit
tee Of the American Cotton Spinners' AS
socation.
Pressure Will be applied at home and
abroad to compel all the spnners of the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

LONDON, September rs.
"N HE crisis Of the campaign of 1918
~ has been reached Both militarly
and politically the war situation
has come to climax. In every
theatre in every European country de-
velopments Of the greatest magnitude are
taking place. Anything is possible between
now and the close of the campaign. The
enemy may suffer disaster from which it
will be impossible for him to recover, and
peace may come much quicker than out
ward signs would indicate, as Germany's
weaker allies may collapse completely.
On the other hand, the future may be
full OF SOLDERING disappointments and re-
verses for the Entente. No man, Kaiser
or Premier, can forecast even the immed-
ate future With kaleidoscope rapidity the
situation is changing hourly, but nearly
every picture is calculated to cheer the
Allied soldiers and civilians.
No week of the war has been crammed
with such vital developments. The very
air in Europe seems surcharged with high
explosives. At such time it is almost i'm
possible to take a detached position and
record events without emotion, but il we
remember that this struggle is between the
Entente and Germany, everything else drops
into its proper place.
Foch versus Iudendorff is a battle on
which all eye. here are concentrated How
ever spectacular and diverting may be the
campaign in Palestine, where Alenby has
won of the cleanest victories of the
war and absolutely crushed two Turkish
armies, the publc's attention is riv-
eted on the struggle between the North Sea
and the Alps. However much enthusiasm
the Balkan battle may arouse among the
Allied peoples, they cannot afford to miss
any details of the gigantic combat in France
and Flanders. However much alarm the
industrial unrest in Britain may cause, it
must be remembered that it is only a
minor, though unpleasant, incident of the
war. Statesmen, diplomats, railway men and
miners figure largely in the news of the
week, but Foch and Ludendorff are the
dominating personalities of the moment
AS l write reports show that the British
are we'll on the road to Damascus. with