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Placed On Trial Before the Sem
ate, Acting Al The High Court,
On Specific Charges Of Hay-
ing Plotted Against the Elk
ternal Securities Of the State
Thrown In Prison On Jan.
uary IA, 1920.
(By The Associated Prcss.)

specific charges of "having plot
ted against the external securi-
ties Of the state by. manifest
proclamations. and intelligence
with the enemy, intended TO sever
the latter enterprise between
France and the Allies" Article
seventy-nine of the Penal mill
tary code makes conviction Of
such an offense punishable with
death. The trial is expected to
last between two and three mon
tbs.
Two years ago or January IA, 1918,
for the first time in the history OF the
Third Republic of France, one o. its
former Premiers, Joseph Caillaux,
thrust in to prison on the charge
of high treason and of endeavoring
to make a premature and dishonors
able peace with Germany. For more
than 20 years he had been a power ir
French political life, both as Premier
an dMinister Of Finance. He has ex-
pressed his determination to sight to
the last ditch" although his long de-
tension has made inroads upon his
health. After a.. preliminary herr
irgs, he protested in vain against the
laws delay. Last September Caillau:;
was removed from his Paris prison to
a hospital at Neuilly.
The case against Caillaux is some
what related to that against Bolo Pas
ha, who was executed at V~incennes as
spy in April, 1918, and M. Duval, ed
itor of the Germanophile newspaper
Bonnet Rouge, who went to his death
for similar treachery che following
duly.
Caillaux was not in the cabinet
when the war began. He resigned
shortly after March 16, 1914, the day
his wife shot and killed CASTOR Cal
mette, editor Of Figaro, for accusing
Caillaux of having played into Ger
many''s hands in settling the Moroc-
coan crises Of 1911. Louis j. Malvy,
a close friend, was Minister Of the In
terror, at the time Caillaux resigned.
Malvy, it. will be remembered, was la
ter accused of high treason and tried
in 1913 before the Senate High Court.
The treason charge was improved but
Malvy, a radical-socialist, was con-
victed of other offenses and sentenced
five years banishmert from Fran
ce. He is now an exile in Spain.
Through Malvy, it is alleged, Caillaux
directed affairs so that the machin-
atoms charged against him could be
carried on.
Caillaux was suspected of heading
a pacifist movement having as it's OBJ
Ject a reconciliation between France
and Germany, a suspicion which be-
came all the Eore serious; by reason
OF the fact that German spies were
everywhere in France and were belicy-
ed to have penetrate,! into the coun-
ellis Of the government. The "de-
featist" propaganda, intended to break
down the morale Of the French peo-
pie by leading them to believe Germ
any was invincib;e. had wide rami6ca-
tiors. It reached fhom Paris to Rome
and from Rome to Washington and
Buenos Aires. Count Won Bernstorf.
formerly German: Ambassador at
Washington, was charged with having
spent more thar 60, 200. 900 to create
similar "defeatist" conditions in italy.
Upon tie a:cuista: OF his wife, ana
his retirement from politics, Caillaux
went to war, serving in the paymas-
ter S department. of the French army.
Within two months he was in trouble
with British officers anG, Subsequent
y, with his own military superiors in
Paris. for which he was punished,
Releasedufrom service he sailed in No.
vember 1914, for South America and
passed most of the winter in Arren.
tina. While in Buenos Aires, it was
said, he conferred with Count Kar!
Won Luxburg, the German minister,
who will be recalled as the author 81
message to the German Foreign Of
nee requesting the Ulboats to ""sink
without trace all Argentine shins,
the vessels Of ! neutral power.
From France to Italy
H. Caa ALLAN, returned to France and
was next heard from tw,s oyears later
n Italy. He was reported to hive eone
there in November 1916 with. Nina,
Cahlaux, for q rest. The Rome cor.
respondent Of the London Times, tie
itrlAlt month, charged Gaiilauux
. y. irving to plant q separate peace
movement among Germ,anophiies n
the Vatican ard ia italian aristocracY,
]. Color WAS given, u this accusation
sDy 2 report sent TO Premier BRAND 81
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lnayal attaeche II Rome, shich9he
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