Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-09
BOLO-PaS haed!


many lands, one-time intimate of the Khedive OF
Egypt from whom he received title and fortune,
an international eavesdropper and spy, ready in
strument for German intrigue at the outbreak OF
the present war. hob-nobber with pacifsts and i'm
questionable newspaper owners, go-between OF high
German diplomatists and low yellow journalists,
earwisger of politicians with little money and less
morals. downright traitor and all-round villain
this Boo Pasha who arrived in the United States
on February %. 1916. and Immediately got into
secret communication with Count Won Bernstorn.
A brief sojourn was Bolo's, for he sailed for
Europe on March II following. But within those
three short weeks, evidence disclosed by the
Attorney General of New York and tacitly con-
hrmed by the State Department goes to prove, he
piled his mission we'll. And ii will not be surpris-
ing il further investigation shows that of all the
Kaiser's American emissaries who have sought to
influence politicians and newspapers, this soldier
of fortune aimed highest and succeeded best.
Certainly much expected of him. if the huge
and frequent sums of money advanced to him, dur
ing his stay in America by the German ambassa-
dor is any Indication. Amounts ranging from two
hundred thousand to five hundred thousand dollars
and totalling almost two million were turned over
TO Bolo Pasha instructions from Berlin while
he tarried in New York and Washington For
what purpose and for just what use? The
count of how he worked in France. where he is
now imprisoned awaiting trial a traitor and
spy, throws light on his American mission and
methods
Almost at the outset of the he and his
co-mates in German intrigue started numerous
publications which inveighed against in gen.
eral and Frances heroic war in particular, ridicu
ing those who conducting it and charging
them with all manner OF false motives Bolo did
not pause with such publications, which for the
most part weekles. He procured by
means or another the aid of certain established
newspapers. principally of the sensational yell
low sort. These, he subsidized and babe them
shout for peace. Some of the editors we are
told were conscious of what they doing and
knew they taking German gold and doing
Germany's work, while others were just stupid"
This observation is equally true of the politicians
whom Bolo piled. His subservient papers, pub
Iished at divers points but with virtual unanimty
of sentiment. kept piping for peace conference
kept sneering at the Government, kept impugning
the motives of Frances allies, kept doing their
utmost to deceive and mislead the French people
Their insidious campaign, along with that which
looked to political corruption, truly described
as "a vast German plot to undermine public morale
in France and hasten peace with the Kaiser" 4
That the scheme foredoomed to failure
anyone at all familiar with the keen mind and
loyal spirit of the French people should have
known. But his i'll success in France did not dis
courage Bolo Pasha from American venture,
nor did it deter the German Government from
prodigaI expenditures in support of his efforts
Evidence unearthed thus far shows that Bolo
ceived in the course of his stay in America not
less than one million, hundred thousand
dollars. But how much more he may have received
is, as far the public now knows. matter of
conjecture We may be certain, however, that
the German check book freely at his command,
or at least at Won Bernstorffs command, and that
he spent Unstintedly wherever he supposed the
golden seed to be falling fertile ground. At
first thought. is amazed at the apparent reck-
Iessness with which Germany has poured out
money to sway American opinion and to purchase
certain American influences Bernstorf would
cable Berlin for fifty thousand dollars Gin order
as on former occasions to influence Congress
through the organization you know off, with the
nonchalance of King Croesus chamberlain calling
for a bit of pocket change; and wherever the trail
of German agents in this country has been followed
their tracks have been marked with gold.
But for all their seeming extravaganza those
vast expenditures made with a coldy calcu-
lated view to economy. And economical they
doubtedIy would have been, had they accomplished
their intended results. Suppose. for instance, that
in the late winter of 1916, when BOlo Pasha
here the foundations could have been laid for a
really successful pro-German plot to keep the
United States OF the regardless of its
rights and fits honor. Or suppose that in the early
spring OF 1917. when relations between Washing
ton and Berlin had reached fateful crisis, Count
von Bernstorff could have succeeded in influencing
Congress the extent OF refusing support Presi-
dent Wilson. Or suppose that even now a German
paid campaign for inconclusive peace could
make Roadway in this country. and the daily effort
Of disloyaI yellowjournalism to poison the public
mind and weaken the public morale could succeed.
No matter how many fortunes Germany paid out to
get such results. she would have bargained with
shrewdness and thrift A million dollars for
really effective work through a venal publisher
would be a mere triHe to the hundreds upon hun
dreds OF millions which munitions and supplies for
the hard-pressed German front require. A round
billion. or many billions for the matter of that,