Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-05
REPRESENTED GERMANY
AS ANXIOUS FOR PEACE
Bolo Pasha Came to America With
Purported Offer for Separate
Dealings With France.
REAL PURPOSES LATER FOUND
1t Was to Obtain Influence of French
Journals Through Transfer OF Gold
From Berlin to Paris-No Effort
to Corrupt Americans.
Try Associated Press. ]

WASHINGTON. October 4-Testi-
| mony that Bolo Pasha. now under
| arrest in Paris as Il spy. and peace
propaganda on behalf of Germany
| came to America early in 1916 with
representations that Germany was
ready for q separate peace with
France. which would be favorable to
France, was given before Merton f.
Lewis. Attorney-Gcneral of New York
State. here to-day in the investigation
into the Levantincs financial activities
in this country.
Adolph Pavcnstedt for many years
4 social intimate of Count Won Bern
storff. former German ambassador,
testified that Bolo Pasha told him ne
understood Germany was prepared to
make peace on the following grounds:
First. Germany to cede France n
part Of Alsace and Lorraine; second,
France to give Germany some of the
French colonies; third. German troops
to evacuate Northern Franco.
Using this purported Willingness of
Germany to make peace, Bolo Pasha in
duccd Pavenstedt then a partner in
the exporting firm of c.. Amsinck &
Company. in New York, at that time
German company. to believe that
he had come TO America as Il French
patriot to influence French public opin-
ion in favor Of peace through tho pur-
chase by French pacitists of various
newspapers.
Testimony adduced through Paven-
stedt and Hugo Schmidt, then an
American representative of the Deut-
sche Bunk, in Berlin, disclosed. how
ever, that Bolo Pasha's real purpose
was TO obtain the French journals on
behalf of Germany. This was to be
accomplished through the transfer OF
German gold from Berlin to Paris. This
money could not go direct, and to send
II by way of Switzerland was consid-
cred dangerous. Bolo Pasha there
fore. came to New York. got into touch
with Count Won Bernstorff and then ap-
proXimately $1,000 600 was sent from
Berlin to New York and thence through
devious channels to Paris, there to be
used by Bolo Pasha in promoting n
peace propaganda for Germany. There
is no evidence to show. Mr.. Lewis said
that any of this fund was used in an
effort to corrupt American Journalists
Apparently. Bolo's only purpose In
coming to this country was to ar
range channel for getting money
from Germany to France through the
aid of Won Bernstorff.
According to testimony. Bolo was so
elated by his success in the transfer
of German gold to Paris that he decided
to celebrate. He arranged dinner ut
n Fifth Avenue restaurant here, and
among his guests, witnesses before
MIR. Lewis said. were Mr. and Mrs
William Randolph Hearst. Mrs Owen
Johnson, wife of the novelist; Jules
Bois. Pavenstedt and Ernest Charles
Pignatel, who was in charge OF the
commercial credit department. Of the
Royal Bank of Canada. and who WAS
witness before Mr.. Lewis. The at
torney-gencral said no testimony had
been given which associated Mr.. Hearst
with Bolo Pasha. except in a social
way, and that no witnesses would be
examined in this connection.