"Major" Esterhazy has published some more " revela- tions "
which substantially amount to this, that he is a per- secuted hero of discipline, for that whatever he did was done by order of his superiors on the Staff. The revelations do not give much light to any one who has followed tbe Dreyfus drama with attention, but they have attracted great attention in Paris, where the most open accusations are now made against General Billot, General Boisdeffre, and another officer, whose name, says the correspondent of the Daily News, will come out, and who is greater than all the rest. Even M. Drumont begins to throw over his Staff allies, and if Colonel du Paty de Clam peaches, as is threatened, there may yet be a revulsion of opinion. The great central mystery, however, still remains unsolved. Why was Dreyfus made a scapegoat ? Suppose, for an instant, that great people appropriated secret service money, and even then his punish- ment could not help them. It looks as if some highly placed
person had sold secrete, and then used military power to fasten the charge on a victim who, as a Jew, had no protectors ; but, even after all that has passed, is that conceivable ?
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