is dragging its slow length along. The amount of irrelevant matter introduced is astounding to anyone unaccustomed to the methods of French justice. The witnesses unanimously prefer telling what they think to what they know, and' when they do venture on statements of fact it generally transpires that the said facts only became known to them through some other person. Had the English rules of evidence been followed, the trial would have been over long ago; but as I have often remarked with surprise, the French '3 a nation appear to have no conception of the difference between evidence at first and second hand. However, the diffuse style of testimony has one advantage in this case. No witness can complain afterwards that he was not allowed to tell all he knew, or thought ho knew, and there will be no excuse for making up' any' more old stories against Dreyfus after the present trial, His former comrades at the War Ministry have come into the box one after the other and dragged out every little circumstance which could have the slightest. weight against him. Fortunately Maitre Labori, providentially restored to health after the cowardly attempt on his life, is bursting big holes in the web of. intonation and calumny as fast' as it is
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