The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-02
LEFT TRAIL IN U. S.
Noted Spy Suspect Operated Tor
a While in n. Y.
Launched PrO-German Week
lies and "Met Publishers"
NOW UNDER ARREST IN PARIS
Brother of PreIate, He Had
Spectacular Career.
Substituting Press for Germany,
BOIO Pasha's Speciality.

New York, Oct 2.-Secret service
agents in this city have a detailed
record of the American activities or
Bolo Pasha, held in Paris for having
relations with Germany. He Is ac-
cused of subsidizing French papers III
the interest of the enemy.
Bolo Pasha arrived in the United
States in February, 1915, it is de-
clared. He was wei equipped with
gold, opened accounts in several
banks, conferred with German spies,
launched several prO-German week
lies and met publishers of newspapers
which afterward manifested pro-Ger-
man inclinations-
Brother of MonsignOr BOIo.
Paris, oct. 1.-Bolo Pasha, charged
with having relations with the enemy,
according to a story of his career ap-
pearing in the Matin, was born in
Marseilles. At first he was CLERK to
a notary. He is a brother of Mon
signor Bolo, one of the most eloquent
preachers of the Catholic church in
France, and had an easy access to an
honorab BILE career, but chose occUpa-
lions that were varied and hazardous.
His business ventures begun with
scheme for the wholesale catching
and shipment of lobster This cost his
partner a considerable sum. After
failing in several other enterprises,
BOlo PaSha came to Paris and started
a sort of information bureau. 1T be-
came the target for numerous COM
plants eliminating in the %ondemna-
ton of Bolo by default for abuse of
confidence and swindling in 1924 He
then went to Valencia, Spain, where,
under the name of Berner, he opened
a cafe that was much frequented by
the French colony.
Married Rich Widow.
In 1908, the Matin says, he turned
up at Bordeaux, where he married
widow who had an annual income of
10000 francs, He then enlarged his
field of operations. appearing at Lyons
as an agent for champagne and other
wines. Bolo, the newspaper adds, was
conspicuous in the riots in Champagne
when the wine growers there, in
protest against the use of wine from
outside Champagne for making spar
king wines under the name of cham
payne. devastated the vineyards of big
French companies. while those owned
by Germans were left unframed.
1t was in June, 1914, that BoIo met
Abbas Hilmi, then khedive of Egypt.
lie at once became trusted agent in
the enterprise for the exploitation of
real estate owned by the khedive, and
for the protection of the khedives in
terest in the Suez canal and in Egypt
in. event that circumstances might
compel Great Britain to repudiate the
khedive. he project. however, was
not carried to completion.
Bolo Pasha, the Matin declares,
communicated again with Abbas Hilmi
in Switzerland shortly after Great
Britain had deposed Abbas as khedive
and thru the eX-khedive entered into
relations with German agents.
Warrant for French Editor
Paris, Oct. IA warrant has been
been issued for the arrest of CASTOR
Reuter-, French subject. who found
ed the pacifist newspaper La Paix at
Madrid, with funds supposed to have
been furnished by Bolo Pasha. The
publication aroused the indignation of
the French colony in the Spanish cap
ital on account of its Germanophile
tendency. As a result Reuter- de-
clared he would cease publication and