19 AUGUST 1899, Page 2

An even more striking and dramatic incident in Thursday's Bitting

was the cross-examination of General Roget. The General expressed his reliance upon a certain paper in the diplomatic secret dossier as proving the guilt of Dreyfus. That paper purported to be a letter from the Austrian Mili- tary Attache alluding to Dreyfus. At that very moment the Figaro was publishing a telegram from the Austrian Mill- tary Attache declaring in so many words that the letter in question was a forgery. Is the pit of forgery, perjury, and folly in the Dreyfus case really bottomless