has "chipped _in" with a manifesto which has fallen painfully flat. '*Frenchmen" he writes, your most sacred rights are being outrageously violated. The agents of an occult and dangerous Power are endeavouring, under the pretext of clearing the character of a man convicted of treason, to destroy the army and ruin France. We will not permit it." It would be interest= ing to know how the Dake proposes to stop the Dreyfus agitation. He seems fated to make himself ridiculous.
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