6th Sept.
We extract tle following information; supplementary to that which Reuter has-given-us, from the Havas'telegrams published in the Icho de Chine. We are not ungracious enough to siccuse the Havas service of the - habitual partiality of. which' the' Hako. accuses Reuter:—Paris, 27th August.—On the anniversary of his trip to Russia, M. Faure has exchanged with the. Czar telegrams renewing their: warm wid invariable good wishes. 28th. August.—he St, Petersburg Messager Gfficiel publishes a note from the Czar communicated -by Muravieff to all the Fureigu Miiristers,- in' which all the Governments are invited to meet in Conference and discuss. a reduction of-armaments to ensure a general peace. 29th -August—The French. Press applauds the Czar's proposition, bat insists onthe legitimate hopes of France being safeguarded. 'The English Press foresees.". great practical difficulties. (30th -August.—At' St. Petersburg the' Novosti says that: the Conference would discuss. disarmament only when the reasons for the existing-armaments have been elucidated..or "réemoved.—Then we have the news already. received: as to Colonel Henry's: confession, arrest, and suicide; and'the naive remark is [made that it is believed that Colonel: Henry's crime does not prove Dreyfus's innocence. On the Ist itis tant the resignation of Geieral. Boisdeffre, Chief of the Staff, is annoniced; he is replaced by" General Réuouard. It will be-remembered that—General Boisdeffre: was one of. the mew accused by name: by M. Zola of conspiring to stifle the efforts made to prove: that. not Dreyfus but Esterhazy was the real teulprit; while at..the trial. of M.-Zola February: last he - refused to- say anything but that he was convinced of. "the: guilt of Dreyfus—Then we have on the. 3rd instant: 'I'he movement in:.the Press -favour of a-revision of-the Dreyfus-case is gaining strength. "4th: Septeriber.—M. Cavaignac...has resigned because he. disagrees., with his colleagues on the- question of the Dreyfus case. The-Ministers will-meet at the Elysés. to-morrow. and examine the demand of Madame Dreyfus for a revision; it is considered certain that they will consent. to the demand, not because they believe in the innocence of Dreyfus, but as a satisfaction to public opinion which has been worried' by the recent incidents.
And so our trust in the French love of justice is not misplaced, and it seems that at last Dreyfus, whether innocent or guilty, will have a fair trial.
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