(Translated for the North-China Daily News from the Copenhagen "*Politikin" of the 28th of November, 1897.)
Paul Clemenceau, who arrived at Copenhagen yesterday from Christiania on his way to Paris, is a brother of the well-known editor of La Justice and_s school-fellow of Cuptain Dreyfus. Paul Clémenceau's name has several times been mentioned by the French papers in connection with the Dreyfus case, and an interview with him was thus. of more than ordinary intereat. M. Clemenceau said: 'I know Dreyfus as well as two men know ea when they have been seated si side in the school-room of St. Barbe for five years. I know him even better than the others of our class-mates cirounstances made na friends ly age, and this friendship hay Ixsted until this very day. Ax a boy Dreyfus had not many friends. He was so horribly bad-looking, that everybody felt aversion towards him. The mouth was big and sheepish-looking, the nose crooked, he had an unsteady glance in his eyes, and the ved-complexioned face was. surrounded by thin light-coloured hair. The school-boys always used to tease him. powerful fellow and could have fought any of us, but he preferred to take his revenge ju a different way. Besides being ye hard-working, nature had gifted him wit an extraordinary intelligence, and these combined always made him the firat in the class, "The teachers did not like him either, and always required more of him than of anybody else, but in spite of that, he was No. 1 at every examination, and on such days he enjoyed his triumph.
When we were eighteen years of age our ways parted. He went to military college and I continued my studies as polytechnician.
In spite of this separation we continued to be friends. In Paris we occasionally met each other, and as it happened that Twas a manufacturer of arms, we hada mutual interest, which made us still better acquainted. On account of his eminent ability he was transferred to the Staff, and his interest in the construction of arms yrow with every progress and: invention, Though myself a professional he very often astonished me by the extent of his knowledge. He was well acquainted with English and German technical literature, and when we met in the streets, we could walk about for hours absorbed technical military questions. In this part cular domain he was absolutely a scientist.
We both married and he rented a house in the Quartier Marboouf, the very same house where his wife is now living in, anxiety and excitement. Ca the day he had rented this house I met him in the Rue Royale, and during our conversation he expressed the desire that our wives sould be acquainted in order that we might renew our relations of former days, but this never was carried out. Once on a walk my wife and.I met Dreyfus; I introduced him to her, and afterward asked her to invite him to.our house, but my wife replied: No thank Jou, I don't want to see that ugly man with us."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.