By a curious coincidence, another victim of a French judicial error has just given his account of his experiences to the world. I refer to Eugene Degrave, the survivor of the two brothers who, under the alias of "Rories, or "Rorique,' were sentenced to death by the Naval Court at Brest. in 1893 on charges of piracy and murder in the Pacific. ~The whole case for the prosecution rested on the evidence of a mulatto cook named Mirey, whose character was bad and who was known to have a grudge against the Degraves. Hearsay testimony of the flimsiest kind was admitted, and the prisoners were given no opportunity of obtaining corroboration of their own story. Tt being ascertained tnat they had been decorated for saving life at sea, their sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life and they were sent to the penal settlements in French Guiana.—Léonce Degrave succumbed after four years of privations and ill-treatment, but his brother Eugine, who was ten years younger, survived and was liberated President Loubet in September, 1899. Enggne Degrave's account, as set forth in his book, "Lo Hague," of the atrocities inflicted on the unhappy "forgots," is almost incredible in its ghastly realism. The Degraves were much more to be pitied than Dreyfus.
9th March. that Great Britain is condue: ing her foreign affairs not on a charitable, but on a business basis; that she is not making gifts outright, but proposes to obtain value for value
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