There can be very little doubt that it is due to the excitement caused: by the Dreyfus agitation, the fall of the Brisson Ministry, and the inexplicable precipitancy of General Chanoine, inexplicable to believe that he is an honest coo! man, that there was not more organised fury' in France over the Fashoda incident. "One nail," as the French proverb says, pushes out another." We propose only to make one extract in reference to the Dreyfus ease, from the Pall Mail of the 25th of October We have only to road through M. Bard's report, as far a3 it had gone this worn skeletons niust be hermet he cupboard. M, Bar argument is crushing one on every head. Ho shows that the exports of 1894 declared that the rreau was in the handwriting of Dreyfus undisguised, that the experts of 1897 pro-noticed the writing tobe deliberate tracings of that of Esterhazy, and that the authorities, "judicial" and others relied alternately on th stories. He exposes the rottenness of the fabrication that Dreyfus confessed; he ow Clu Paty de Clam lied Droyfus's and name athay in small details as in rear; he reads out Colonel Piequart's letter tothe Minister of Justice, and leaves us in doubt why the General Staff has found Picquart a very good man to keep out of the way. But the most serious revelations of all concern Esterhazy. There: is that letter to Mon General, in which Esterhazy says? "If I have not succumbed in this monstrous campaign, it is to you and to you alone that I owe it." We must all agree with M. Bard that it would be most interest to hear thename.of that General. Theo lations with Clam, but that remarkable letter, noe only much light upon Eaterhazy's re-which he accuses the authorities of backing Just before Bntechazy's fight, to England in him up and abandoning him by turns to suit their own convenience, and threatens to speak out. Who are these Generals and those authorities? What is the whole truth of the course of events to which Esterhazy refers That is the kind of thing which would have to come out ifthe whole matter were unearthed, and the dirty carpets beaten in lic and that is the kind of thing whish, in consideration. of "consequences on which there is no need to enlarge," must not be allowed to come out. It is not for fear of inexpedient references to the name of tu souverain stranger that silence is #0 desirable, but for fear of revelations as to the action of the sacred Chiefs of Army and the blundering complicity with them of the Merciers, the Billots, and the rest. And it means' that Paris dare not face the truth about her Army's heads. Whatever the facts atour Chanoine may be the military are in a mood for a plot ora coup d'état, if they can find a picturesque figure-head; and too much revelation might sting them into inventing one. Could they then rely on the blind passion of the crowd? It would be a bold Premier who would take his chance of that failing them; certainly not HI. Dupuy, one would think, the Premier under whom Dreyfus was condemned, the Premier of Geuscral, Mercier's term of office.
As regards the Fashoda question, the Times of. the 25th of October gives the
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