Arizona republican., 1917-11-25
BOLO PASTA BEGAN
 CAREER AS BARBER
(kansas Civ Starl

Thrown into prison in Paris for hiF bart in the gigantic German move to corrupt the French government and to l undermine the loyalty of other nations involved in the world I'ar--not the le1.t of wlii is tn" United States Bf 'o Ioasha rc:ata .ns man of mystery.
 Stories of sIne of the au2ctacul ;r n,c''ier,ts of ;;is career fave been told inLe his a.rest. but no milling has c l.-e of hIf q Is a6Velirrer rose to the position of power which he occu pied before the exposure of the kaisers plot shattered his house of cards.
 The son of a poor hairdresser in Marsailles, it was natural enough that Paul Bolo should follow :n his fathers footsteps and become a barher's assist ant. That was his start in life. But il is almost beyond the range of imagin- aton to picture the boy hairdresser ill Marsailes barber shop closeted with the emperor of his countrys age old enemy nation, so little is known of his life in the interval.
 Sometime before the outbreak of the war. Paul Bolo was one of the most polished, best dressed men who had an entry to Paris society He had won publicity through his engagement to marry Calve. the worlds greatest Car men. but the diva had broken off the match. His brother was a priest with the most fashionable following in the French capital, and this fact gave him added prominence. Even then he boasted the title of pasha, which Ab- bas Himli. when khedive of Egypt. had conferred on him. What service he had rendered the khedive was not known--and is not known yet, for that matter. He lived in luxury and spent money lavishly. The source of this money, too, was mystery.
 A former American attache, who has spent much time in Europe, is au- 1 thority for the statement that Bolo Pasha once was married. His wife was more than 50 years old when Bolo, then 25, married her. She had been an | actress of the opera bouffe, with none too sayory a reputation, and had saved consderab ble money. when she died she left her fortune to BolO, but ap- parently it did not last long in his hands.
 It was after dissipating his wife's money that Bolo turned up in Egypt and came out of the land of the Nile | with a title and large resources for a | time. The beginning of the war found | him bankrupt again, but he met the l former khediVe Abbas as Monte Carlo and soon emerged from a brief 0bscur | ity with an entourage and scale of
 living which spelled prosperity.
 From that time on his operations ar, pretty well knuown. He had free ac- cess to the cities of France, Spain ant
 Italy, the then French minister of tht i Interior Malvy providing him witt
 passports and credentials whenever ne
 needed them. What hold he had or
 Malvy, who has just been acquitted o treason, is a puzzle. He visited tn
 United States, and his dealings wit
 von Bernstorff were the subject of tn
 recent interesting disclosure by tn
 state department of the efforts of Ger many to spread it's propaganda in thi country as well as in France.
 But when it is all told. little reall
 is known about Bolo Pasha and tn
 methods by which he operated in a con
 spiraey which has few parallels in tn , history of diplomacy. He was a hair dresser who became man of fashio
 to mask his operations as an interna
 tional spy How he did it may re main one of the mysteries of history