Paris has been agitated by a grave official scandal. General
Caffarel, who was appointed by General Boulanger Deputy Chief of the Staff, is accused of having taken bribes to procure decorations through the agency of Madame Limousin, a middle- aged adventuress, who made it her business to open negotiations with officials. General Caffarel has been placed on half-pay by sentence of a Court of Honour, and is to tried by a civil tri- bunal ; while the police, on the evidence afforded by his and Madame Limousin'', papers, are making arrests right and left. General Count d'Andlan, for example, a Senator as well as a conspicuous officer, has either fled or committed suicide, and a number of politicians have had their houses searched. It is even asserted that the plan of mobilisation which was betrayed to the Figaro has been discovered in General Caffarel's house. The newspapers are already making a party question of the matter, the Radicals minimising and the Royalists aggrandising the charge ; but the Minister of War, General Perron, has publicly promised that he will hush up nothing, and has ordered the arrest of General Boulanger for declaring the affair a gotnp scandal directed against himself.
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