M. Clemenceau.--“He did not enter as a robber.”

M. Labori.--“No equivocations. I ask General de Pellieux whether he

thinks it possible to ask the chief of the bureau of information

belonging to the French war department to keep a watch on spies in the

interest of the national defence without giving him the right, if he is

an honorable officer above suspicion, to make an investigation?”

General de Pellieux.--“I think he has the right.”