27 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 2

M. Caillaux, the leader of the French Radicals, has been

sent for trial before the High Court of the Senate. The Committee which has held a long inquiry into his doings sine the war began, reported last week that the evidence was sufficient to justify his trial. He is charged with having " plotted against the external security of the State by manceuvres, machinations, and intelligence with the enemy tending to favour the latter's enterprises against France or her Allies . . . and of a nature consequently to favour the progress of the enemy arms." Germany, it is asserted, looked to M. Caillaux, in the dark days of the winter of 1916-17 to form a " Defeatist " Ministry which would accept a " peace without victory " on Germany's terms.

Caillaux has yet to be heard in his own defence.