The Cordova daily times., 1920-01-15
TAILLAUX TRIAL
 TO TAKE PLACE ON FEBRUARY r

former premier Ot france, on the charge of having planned to bring about dishonorable peace, has been set for February IT.
 Two years ago on January IA, 1918, for the first time in the history of the third republic of France, one of it's former Premiers, Joseph Caillaux, was thrust into prison on the charge of endeavoring to make a premature and dishonorable peace with Germany. For more than 20 years he had been a power in French political life, both as premier and minister of finance. He has expressed his determination to flight to the last ditch although shis long detention has made inroads upon his health. After A preliminary hearings, he protested in vain against thc laws delay. Last September Gail 1aux was removed from his Paris prison to a hospital at Neuilly.
 The case against Caillaux is some what related to that against Bolo Pssha, who was executed at Vincen- ne7 as a spy in April, 1918, and M. Duval, editor of the Germanophile newspaper Bonnet Rouge, who went .to his death for similar treachery the following July.
 Caillaux was not in the cabinet when the war began. He resigned shortly after March 16, 1914, the day his wife shot and killed Gaston Cal mette, editor of Figaro, for accusing Caillaux of having played into Ger many's hands in settling the Moroc- cQan crisis of 1911. Louis J. Malvy, a close friend, was minister of the interior, at the time Cai!laux re- signed Malvy, it will be remembered, was later accused of Nigh treason and tried in 1918 before the Senate High Court. The treason charge was un- proved but Malvy, radical Social ist, was convicted of other offenses and sentenced to five years banish- AIiShC II olA II d1CC. I1c IS HoW d1 exile in Spain. Through Malvy, it is alleged, Caillaux directed affairs so that the machinations charged against him could be carried on.
 Caillaux was suspected of heading pacifist movement having as it's object reconciliation between France and Germany, suspicion which be- $Game all the more serious by reason of the fact that German spies were everywhere in France and were be- lived to have penetrated into the coun- cils of the government. The 'de- featist" propaganda, intended to break down the morale of the French people by leading them to believe that Ger many was invincible, had wide ram- ifications It reached from Paris to Rome and from Rome to Washington and Buenos Aires. Count Won Bern storff, formerly German ambassador at Washington was charged with having spent more than $2,O0O,000 to create similar 'defeatist" conditions 4n Italy.
 Upon the acquittal of his wife, and 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 1ktp the British officers and, subse- qutntly, with his own military super iors in Paris for which he was punish ed. Released from service he sailed in November 1914, for South Ameri- ca and passed most of the winter in Argentinea. While in Buenos Aires, it was said, he conferred with Count Karl von Luxburg, the German min ister, who will be recalled as the author of r~~", ito the German .4foreign office .o4dysting the U-boats 10 "sink without trace" all Argen- tine ships, the vessels of neutral power.
 Caillaux returned to France and was next heard from two years later in Italy. He was reported to have gone there in November 1916 with Mrs. Caillaux, for rest The Rome correspondent of the London Times, the following month, charged Gail 1aux was trying to "plan separate peace movement among Germano- phhes in the Vatican and in Italian aristocracy."
 Color was given to this accusa- tior by report sent to Premier Briand by Admiral de Saint Pair, then French naval attache at Rome, in which he said that Caillaux, at a two- hour conference with ex-Minister of the Colonies Martini and other nota- ble Italians, spoke of his return to