Several points about the affair remain to be cleared up, If, for instance, the documents were secret, how did they come to be in the one department of the Ministry which is concerned with publicity? Was the paper handed out by M. de Nobler the one published in' the Hearst newspapers? According to one version, it was not: M. de Nobler disclosed nothing of any importance, and the 12-page letter of instructions to French "diplomatic representatives abroad was abstract. ed from another department, shown, to Mr. Horan, and put back in ite dossier by someone who had been heavily bribed. The high officials of the Ministry have evidently found themselves unable to get to the bottom of the mystery. The Cabinet decided yesterday to transfer the i ta the judicial authorities, which means of course that deteetives will be set to work to find out whether somebody whose nam has not hitherto been mentioned hi been playing the traitor,
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