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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-23
Chinese Engineers Gentle

Chinese locomotive engineers havc the
gentlcst .ense If touch with che mir
brake Of any in The world break m two
is almost uaheard Of and there Is very
little damage to cars m slunttng an Chr
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smith ... forward -. "; =; | re.cIs
IIarbv forward -. +. Pctcrs
Itn,,a-o,,gb center Baldwin
W;ai'ar g1,ard Blaker
80, IL Guard Cavcnder
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pold,.,n iL T. BIake. 3. Foul goals-G,
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.rpc-Boggs.
rore Of 80 10 Il, in q game that was fast
ttr,,,rho,,t The score,
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Field goals Cole, {; Burns, 1; Walls
3 Speakman, | Brodley. !: Goidier' :.
ponl coals-C,ole. 3: Fisher. = Speakman,
;. Massey, /: Brodlcy, s. Colder, =
.;urick. ,. -,
far cole .IewrlI Tor Spcakman, Under
eood for Massey, Riley ior hcndci.
Referee Ross.
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OLD SWEDES GIRLS WIN.
Triumph over Defiance by Close Score
of IL 10 Is

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The Old Swedes girls team defeated
the Defiance girls bv the close score Of
u to Is IN d basketball game in Old
Swedes nall last night
The score.
Dehanca Girls Old SWedes.
Miss ; Jacoby forward Miss Moran
Miss Desoto . forward Miss f. Gilbert
Miss Shields jump center Miss Cooper
Miss b. .lacoby side center Miss Gilbert
Miss Bader guard Miss s. keenan,
Mass Reagan guard Miss Knox
Field goals-Miss Desoto, 1; Mss
Bader, . Miss Moran. 3 Miss L Gilbert
> Fouis-AIiss Desoto, 3 Miss Gilbert
J Referee e-Lannan, ". II s.
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BANCROFT LEAGUE.

ANgLJNB AND CHEMICAL 60.
LEAGUE
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rne character of 'ha testimony o.
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BOWLING.

The following scores were rolled last
night on the alleys at Grady's Bowling
and Billiard Parlors:
HARLAN LEAGUE.
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FOLEY cATHhpTIc TABLETS

They cienpsc tho bowels. swecten tho
stomach and invieorate the liver. Do
not aripc or sickcB.
F. 8 Msehsn. Fim ST. ITspcoek. Mich n
have given Policy Cafhsrtjc Tsblets thoyuueh
trial and can positively state that they ere ths
best laxative"
Berforth ss-ond 4u1 A9artst &t
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

ly wrote letter Of resignation and
Caillaux rushed back to the Elysee
Palace with it and received his own
appointment as; Premier before any
of his colleagues had been informed
Of what was taking place.
The 'SAgadir affair was already
brewing when Caillaux took the
helm He had. been taught by his
mother that his; ancestors had
helped to reconquer France from the
English kings, and his predictions
had always been strongly anti Brit
ish, while he had had intimate finan-
icial relations with Germany. Thus,
while the French Foreign Minister,
Jean Cruppi; and his successor, M.
de Selves, helped by. Sir Edward
Grey, British Minister z of Foreign
Affairs, were carrying on official ne
gotiations through the French Am
bassador at. Berlin, Jules Cambon,
apparently (. under the sanction of
aCaillaux, the latter was secretly ne
gotiating directly with the Wilhelm
strasse through the German Ambas-
sadorsat Paris, Baron Won Schoen.
The end of the negotiations was
a surrender of French territory in
the Congo to Germany, the humili-
alton of France and the offending of
England and Spain, both of whom
had supported France against Ger
many. But huge profits were made
on the Bourse. '
This matter was no sooner fin
ished than he helped Turkey nego-
tiate a loan in France Of 100000
francs. In some secretive way the
money vas advanced, but Caillaux
had already doomed his government
by the Agadir negotiations. As a
result Of an investigation by the
Senate he was forced to resign the
Premiership, and the succeeding gov
ernment of Louis Barthou declared
the Turkish loan illegal and ordered
the bank through which it had been
issued to pay a fine Of 100000
francs. The bank never had that
much money, but through the influ-
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under Waldeck- Rousseau, he had
proposed an income tax law. It
made him popular with the radicals
and badly frightened the financiers
OF the Bourse. Caillaux secretlv
killed his own bill, retained his pop-
ularity with both the radicals and
the capitalists, and cynically wrote
to his mistress, claiming credit for
his finesse.
He was openly accused Of Offering
to have allowed a claim against the
French government Of 10000. 900
francs, provided the lions share wa;
turned over to him. He was accused
OF trying to, hold up a great Paris
bank for 100000 francs; he was
mobbed by the stockholders of the
Credit Foncier Of Argentina for an
propriating to himself such a large
share Of the profits of the concern
while their returns were so neager
and he was charged. with protecting
and aiding in the escape of Henri
Rochette, who swindled the Frenc,.
people out Of $30,000,ooo.
Meanwhile, his private life WAS
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as notorious as his public career,
Caillaux married first in 1900, but
almost Immediately after his mar
riage fell in love with Nine. Jules
'Dupre. She was an unusually beau
tiful woman, who was the wife of a
clerk in the Ministry Of Fine Arts,
at a salary. Of $48u year. 1t was
to her that Caillaux confided in the
letters he could not help writing to
the women he loved the story of
the income tax bill with which he
had bamboozled both his radical
followers and the capitalists. Nine.
Dupr6 and Caillaux both obtained
divorces in 1906 and Caillaux mar
ried Nine. Dupre. Her former hus-
band was appointed an excise Off
GER, at salary Of $4,000 a year,
and Caillaux fell in love with Nine.
Leo Claretie.
This was more difficult affair to
arrange. Claretie divorced his wife
in 1910,: but Caillaux could not per-
suade Nine. Caillaux to divorce him,
and it was not until 1912 that'he was
free. Early in that year he di-
vorced his second wife and married
Nine. Claretie. But his habit of
writing letters to his mistresses was
destined to lead him to the brink of
ruin.
Caillaux became Minister Of
Finance in Clemenceau's Cabinet in
1905 and remained in the govern
ment until 1909. But he wanted to
be Premier. There was an election
In 1870 and Caillaux left the Re-
public2ns and put himself at the
head Of the poor but honest Radi-
cal Socialists. He became their
leader by the simple means Of
financing their campaign. That was
where Clemenceau ard Caillaux
split.
Clemenceau would not prostitute
his principles to obtain Office. Gail
laux had no principles-power was
what he wanted. Clemenceau
turned his back. on CaiIlaux, who re-
turned to tho chamber at the head
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ence of Caillaux the money was
found and the fine paid. Neverthe-
less, Turkey had received the $780,
100000 francs, which were after
ward used against the Entente in
1914.
Caillaux was again out of Office
until the end of 1918, when CASTOR
Doumergue was called on to form
a government. Caillaux was the
leader of the opposition in the Cham
ber, and Doumergue was only named
as Premier as a cover for Caillaux
on account of the scandals with
which he had recently been connect
ed. Caillaux became Finance Min
lister for the fourth time, and under
his leadership the government advo-
Gated reducing the time of military
service from three years to two
years, just at the moment when Ger
many had added several hundred
thousand men to her standing army.
CASTOR Calmette, editor of the
Figaro" at once began a furious
campaign against Caillaux in the
columns of his paper. The attack
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Caillaux Letters Printed.

Calmette accompanied this letter
with a threat to publish more secret
documents; and Nine. Caillaux, in
terpreting the threat to mean that
some OF Caillaux's correspondence
with her had in some way fallen into
Calmette's hands and would be pub
llshed, went to the Office of the
Figaro" March 16, and killed Cal
mette.
Caillaux at once resigned as Min
lister Of Finance and devoted himself
to the defense of his wife. In the
course of the trial, which began in
July and lasted three weeks, Caillaux
challenged the prosecution to pro-
duce the documents Calmette had
threatened to publish, and then it
developed that they were not cor
respondence with Nine. Caillaux at
the time she was Nine. Claretie, but
documents in the German official
cipher, signed by Baron Won Schoen,
proving the secret negotiations of
Caillaux with Germany at the time
of the Agadir crisis. AS soon as
Caillaux learned the true nature of
the documents he withdrew his chal-
lenge for their production.
The trial ended with the acquittal
of Nine. .Caillaux on the theory of a
crime of passion. Then the war be-
gan.
Such was the preparation Of Joseph
Caillaux for the Great War, which
found him in deep disgrace, cast out
of the position of power as coadjutor
to Doumergue and real Premier of
France, where he could have direct
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Foiled by Clemenceau

1t was Clemenceau who tripped
the master potter and wrecked his
"Casarian enterprise" AS head of
the Army Commission of the Sem
ate he was familiar with all the in
formation in the hands of the gov
ernment concerning the doings Of
Caillaux. He began July %, 1917,
with an attack in the Senate on
Louis J. Malvy, Minister of the In
terror and Caillaux's creature in the
Cabinet, and continued his attacks
until Malvy's parliamentary immu-
nifty was withdrawn and he was
brought to trial.
The charges against Malvy were
rapidly followed by others-BoIo
Pacha, the Bonnet Rouge" gang
and Humbert. Clemenceau exposed
the weakness of the government in
leaving the traitors at liberty be-
cause of the influence Of the man be-
hind them. He promised to follow
the trail mercilessly, until all those
who would betray France had met
the fate they deserved. In Novem-
Der the Ribot government fell and
Clemenceau was called upon to form
cabinet. He pressed the inquiry
against the. traitors, the evidence
against Caillaux piled up, and jan
uary IS. 1918. Joseph Caillaux. ex-
Premier of France, was lodged in
the Prison de Sante under the
charge Of treason.
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Joseph Caillaux, Bitter Foe of
Clemenceau, Accused of
Aiding the Germans


in the Champer until his arrest.
Once in the Chamber his future was
assured. for he had the backing of
Waldeck-Rousseau, who made him
Minister of Finance in 1899, a posi-
tion he held until 1902.
Up to this time Caillaux had been
comparatively obscure man, but he
had been, as he always remained, a
tireless worker. BY attaching him.
self to Waldeck- Rousseau he had
laid the sure foundation of political
success, and by his operations on the
Bourse had greatly increased his
fortunes. His purse was ready for q
political career when at the age Of
thirty-five he first entered the
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ed the policies and controlled the
destinies of the country whose lot it
was to protect the liberties of the
world.
Yielding to the first impulse, he
went into the army and was
made paymaster. But there was
no career in the army for him,
no chance for rehabilitation and a
return to power. There was even
another breath of scandal, some hint
OF irregularities in the army finances,
and when he and Nine. Caillaux ap-
peared together on the streets of
Rarls they were hooted and pelted.
Decidedly, the army held nothing for
Caillaux. Politics was his role. To
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await the defeat of his country by
Germany and then appear as the
savior, the only man who could
salvage anything from the wreck.
There were both money and power in
that part.
1t came to that openly in 1916,
when Germany was hammering at
Verdun. Caillaux's followers and
sycophants exulted brazen1y.
France cannot hold out ten
days." they said. "The Germans
will take Verdun and then it will be
all over. They will have to call on
Caillaux then. They will have to
call on him to save France. He is
the only man who can do it."
1t was devilish to see the exulta-
ton of that brood Of traitors and
defeatists. France was in her dark
est hour and they made no effort to
hide their joy.
Caillaux, however, had not stood
silently by, waiting for fortune. He
had given fortune a vastly helping
hand. The Indictment reveals him.
1t saws:
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

opened early in January, 1914, and
day by day the secret history of
Caillaux was laid before the public.
On March 13 Calmette published a
letter written by Caillaux to Nine.
Dupre in the early days of their in
timacy. 1t was signed "Ton 10" and
furnished the proof in his own hand
writing Of his duplicity in the mat
ter Of the income tax.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

Chamber. It was y preii1nnarx ne
had decided upon. But his desire
for money was not satisfied, and he
foresaw the need for much larger
fortune in order to keep The power
he intended to seize.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
4 s'Peace of Defeat

political notes discovered in the
Florence safe throw food of light
on M. Caillaux's true intention.
They prove he had conceived a plan
of Selling power in order to make
peace and had taken every measure
to secure this result. These docu-
ments cannot form the basis of a
charge, but justice has the right
and it is its duty to take account of
them.
"The 'Rubicon' law to be imposed
on Parliament, if it does not con-
sent to vote it, reveals M. Caillaux's
ambitious designs. The very con-
ditions under which his government
will have to force peace upon the
country are carefully defined. The
responsible memorandum proves
that M. Caillaux was expecting that
he would have to conclude a peace
of defeat intended, in order to bet
ter assure the success of his Caesar
ian enterprise, to throw large part
of the responsibility for the war not
upon the aggressors, but upon those
Frenchmen who had the frightful
responsibility of assuring the coun-
sry's defense in the most tragic
period of its history, thus exposing
them to the terrible and often un-
just wrath of a vanquished people.
M. Viviani is right when, in his
deposition, he terms it an aboml-
nable work"
One sees him, Caillaux, the man
with an infinite capacity for labor,
directed always to the ends of his
unscrupulous ambition.
The Indictment picks him up at
the time he left the army, a few
weeks after the war began, and
follows him through all the pere-
grinations of his plottings. He
first went to South America on a
minor and obscure mission for the
government, and there, through the
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

Of the largest single bloc there was
in the body. Money had bought the
balance Of power. Still, President
Fallieres would not make him
Premier, and it was not until 1911
that Caillaux went back into office
as Minister of Finance once more,
under Antoine Monis, and accident
gave him the opportunity to betray
his chief and achieve the coveted
place.
Soon after this ministry was con-
structed the accident took place on
the aviation field at Vincennes that
cost the life of the Minister of War,
Berteaux, and resulted in injuries
to Premier Monis that confined him
TO his bed for several weeks. They
were not sufficient, however, to pre-.
vent his transacting business and he
presided at several Cabinet meet
ings held at his bedside. .~1
The double Cross .,
Caillaux suggested that the meet
ings were historic and that photo
graph should be made of one, Of
them as a souvenir. After the pic
ture was taken he caused it to be
published in the illustrated news
papers of Paris and then started an
agitation in the opposition press
against the idea Of the destinies Of
France being guided by statesman
who was bedridden. When this
propaganda was we'll under way
Caillaux complained to Fallieres
that the administration was not
only handicapped but endangered
by these attacks, and said it would
be we'll for him, Caillaux, to as
sumo the duties Of Premier tenn
porarily, until Monis should be re-
covered.
! After much pressing Fallieres
consented to do whatever Monis
wanted in the matter and with this
agreement Caillaux rushed off to-
Monis and informed him that the
President insisted on his giving up
the Premiership. Monis according
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Much Personal and Official
Scandal Will Be Aired Before
Verdict Is Given

intervention of Count James Mi.
MOTTO and Count Luxburg, pre-
sented his views on the war to the
German government. His dealings
with Lipscher, the German spy pay-
master, and reception of an emis-
sary from Lipscher in Paris, are
detailed. Then come his dealings
with the notorious Marx of Mann
helm and Marks agent. All these
things are confirmed by documents
found in Caillaux's safe deposit
box in Florence.
Germans Claimed Him
He is tangled in the web Of Bolo
Pacha-or was it Bolo who was
caught in the Caillaux net?--and
is smcared with the slime Of the
despicable Bonnet Rouge" gang.
'It is impossible" says the in
dictment, mot to be struck by the
fact that all the affairs of enemy
intelligence at present known have
as their pivot M. Caillaux's person
ality in the choice of Intermediates
or of journals as recipients of Ger
man liberality"
Delegates from Alsace-Lorraine
to the Reichstag have testified that
at secret meeting of the Budget
Committee in May, 1916, either
Bethmann-Hollweg or Jagow de-
clared that there would be
change of government in France
before the autumn, that Caillaux
would return to power, and then
there would be peace.
"Caillaux is our man." said the
speaker.
The indictment now discusses the
Italian journey, prefacing it with a
review of the general situation Of
the belligerents at the end of 1916,
when Rumania, having abandoned
Bucharest, was gathering the rem
nants of her armies in Moldavia,
when Constantine was having parti-
sans Of Venizelos murdered in the
streets of Athens and attacking
French sailors treacherously, when
the BRAND Cabinet was violently at
tackled and there was a Ministerial
crisis in England, when for the first
time in the Italian Chamber the So
cialists dared to bring forward a
motion for peace, and when, in spite
Ct the victories of the Somme and
I!1e German failure at Verdun, the
situation of the Entente was grave.
That was the moment Won Beth
mann-Hollweg chose for pretended
offers of peace and the moment
chosen by Caillaux to go to Italy to
begin intrigues designed to hurry
Italy and France into a peace of
This brings the Indictment to the
great defeatist campaign of 1917.
"The German rulers" the docu-
ment says, considered Caillaux the
only man in France with whom
Germany could, when the moment
had arrived, negotiate on advan-
tageous bases in the event that the
complete victory by arms, which she
still counted on, should escape her.
Thus alone can one understand why
the Germans were ready to supply
millions to profusely distributed
journals, animated or ostensibly ami
mated by lively patriotic sentiments.
or to defeatist journals, whose cam.
paigns tended to shake the morale
of the army and the nation, but
which were all devoted to NJ. Call
laux's person."
~ ~ IN
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Chamber. II was y r,rriirnlnarxs ne !
had decided upon. But his desire
for money was not satisfied, and he
foresaw the need for much larger
fortune in order to keep the power
he intended to seize.
An Enemy's Attack
One Of, the scandals Of his career
has always been his, close connection,
with the Bourse- while he was an
active politician. the steady aug
mentation, of his private fortunef'bt5
uniformly successful operations on
the Bourse while he was Minister, of
Finance. 1t was this open scandal
that caused CASTOR Calmette to
write of him in the Figaro: {
"The series Of articles we have
been devoting to the secret maneu-
vers and schemes of NJ, Caillaux
has allowed, us to show that the ef-
forts Of the Minister of Finance
have constantly been directed to
one single object, the quest Of
money We have shown the dema-
gogic plutocrat (according to the
stinging appellation applied to him
by M. Briand) on the watch for all !
the public or private operations
which could feed the war treasury
on which rests all his fame. We
have told Of the manipulation on the
Bourse which allowed his we'll in
formed friends to increase without !
any risk the mysterious resources
which they intend to use for the
defense Of his disastrous policy, or
which they recognize as indispensa-
BILE for his costly praise.
eve have shown that in the most
unexpected administrative delibera-
tions he was the suave and servile
captive Of the wealthiest foreign
financiers; that, like jealous slave,
he sacrificed to them his closest COL
leagues in cases Of disputes; that he
insured for himself the continuance
of lucrative honorariums and fat |
salaries, while retaining during his
passage to power, in spite Of his de-
malls, Offices we'll paid from Cairo
and elsewhere. We have proved that
in keeping-illegally-on the list 'of
the Paris market the lottery bonds
of the Credit Foncier Egyptien, in
causing the laws Of France to bow
before prohibited foreign secu-
rity in which he was personally in
tercsted, this enemy Of the savings
OF the nations and enemy Of the1
safety Of the country was also the
enemy Of justice.
at remains for US now to show
that, unknown to parliament which
he makes game Of by lavishly Offer
ing it his injurious subterfuges, M.
CAillaux has placed ak the power OF
his ministerial functions at the dis
posal Of swindlcr."
The marvel Is how the man sur
yiyed his notoriety and seemed to
thrive on his blown upon fame. A
dozen years before Calmette wrote
Csillaux had already made himself
noxious. Az Minister o3 Finsnes
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

Joseph Caillaux was born March
80, 1853, at Le Mans, Of an old
French bourgeois family. One Of
his grandfathers was a member Of
the French National Assembly after
the Revolution, while another held
IN important position under Napo-
leon I. Caillaux's father, Alexandra
Caiilaux, was a civil engineer and
with the Belgian, de Gammond, first
proposed building a tunnel under
the Channel from Dover to Calais.
He WAS for many years chief en-
gineer for the Chemin-de-fer de
POuest, but in 1871 went into poll
tics and was Minister Of Public
Works In that year and Minister Of
Finance in the Due de Broglie's
~eSiuct IN 1910.
Joseph studied lazy and was ad-
mitted to the bar, but chose finance
and politics az a career. He inher-
l1ed q modest fortune from his
iather and set out TO raise it to inn
"enss proportions. Starting with a
MINOR administrative position in the
Afnistsy Of Finance in 1883, he sue
~eded In attracting the attention
/" Waldeck-Rousseau and was sue
"sssrsay rsised TO higher positions
aauA IN 1893 he abandoned admins
usnvs work ard stood for election
- me Chamber Of Deputies.
ths Due De Ia Rochefoucauld,
s1eyslist, was CaiIiaux's opponent.
ss''aau1t running ~ q Republican,
- elected by handsome majority
- shss1after continued To reprs-
8 = ~ Dsrsrtment ~. The Sarths