sentences:  For my side I can not trust any of my chiefs who have been working on falsehoods, I ask for my retirement.and the note allegedly annotated (by Kaiser Wilhelm II), which General Mercier had alluded to at the Rennes trial, which is reported by the press to have influenced the judges of the Military Court.Given these developments, General Louis André, the new Minister of War, led an investigation at the instigation of Émile Combes and assisted by judges.