There is no indication as yet that the civil and
military powers have arrived at a modus vivendi, or that General Zurlinden proposes to resign, or that the Court-Martial will hesitate to bring in a verdict of " Guilty " against Colonel Picquart. Even the Court of Cessation hesitates to arrest the action of the Picquart Court-Martial, and though the populace are cooling, the feeling of the soldiers obviously remains most bitter. When, for example, General Mercier quitted his command at Le Mans on Tuesday, six hundred officers gave him a farewell wine-party, and indulged in passionate expressions of gratitude for his loyalty to the Army in the Dreyfus case. General Mercier, in reply, thanked them for their sympathy, and said that France was assailed by Turks of all kinds, and that the " intellectuals " of the country, like the people of Constantinople, instead of de- fending the fatherland, were indulging in theological subtle. ties. They were "the victims of a morbid decadence." The importance of an utterance like this is that it shows that the military exacerbation is not confined to Paris, but penetrates the whole Army.
