has been expelled from the French army without a pension, and he is also
for three years to be constantly watched by the police.

Furthermore, the papers and the public men who have been conspicuous in
their defence of Zola and of Dreyfus have been warned to cease their
agitation. Even some of the foreign correspondents have received hints
from the governmental authorities that if they are not more careful in
their statements with regard to the Dreyfus case, they will be obliged
to leave the country.

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It is hard to believe that such a state of affairs can exist in a
civilized country. The position of the French Government has been so
clearly defined, however, by the French Premier, Monsieur Méline, that
it is plain the French republic has for a time become almost a
despotism, ruled by a tyrant known as the French army, which is, of
course, the cause of all the trouble. In the Chamber of Deputies the
other day Monsieur Méline remarked:

"After military justice civil justice has declared itself. It has
proclaimed that the members of the court-martial were honest men, who
obeyed their consciences. The Zola trial has ended the confusion made by
those who presumed to put themselves above the laws of the country.
Those who appeared in court were not there as subordinates of the
Minister of War, but as individual witnesses under nobody's orders.

"Certain generals may have been led on too far, but they were led on by
the defence. One general no doubt spoke a word too much, but remember
the accusations that were flung in his face. They ascribed to officers