The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-05
BOLO PASHA TRIED
TOPLAN PEACE FOR
HUNS WITH FRANCE
ALLEGED Spy Said He Understood
That Germany Would Cede
Lands To French
COL L0NIES WERE TO BE
DEMANDED IN EXCHANGE
William Randolph Hearst Enter
tanned BoIo and Was Guest
At Dinner Party

NEW YORK. October - Associa
ted Press Bolo PaSha secretly en-,
deavored to bring about separate
peace between Germany and France
while in America William Randolph
Hearst wRs o guest n dinner which
BOlo Pasha gave soon after his arrival
in New York and hcf rr that dinner
Hearst had himself given an elaborate
entertainment for Bolo Pasha. These
were two of the important develop
ments of yesterday in the Testimony
addpeed by Attorney General Lewis in
the investigation he is conducting of
Bolo Pasha who has been arrested on
charge of espionage in France.
Testimony is Direct
In the testimony which the attorney
general yesterday adduced il was shown
that the man who is held in France as
spy, B0lo Pasha, when he came to
the United States early in 1915 brought
with him representations that Germany
was ready to enter into an early and
separate peace with France.
Adolf Pavenstedt, a banker, who was
friend Of Won Bernstorff testified that
he was told by Bolo Pasha that he un-
derstood that Germany stood ready to
evacuRte all of Northern France and
to eede part of Alsace and Lorraine
II France would surrender some French
colonies to Germany IN exchange and
immediately enter upon negotiations
for q separate peace. NJt x
The investigation which is being con
ducted by the attorney general f ~ his
ssate Il beiiR made ON behalf .ofs aud
at the request Of the French anbassas
DIR and the testimony win be forward
ed 70 the French government, properly
authenticated, TO be used in the trial
of the alleged spy.
How Funds Handled
Pavcnstedt was also connected up
with Won BernstorG and BOlo Pasha as
the intermediary through whom the
funds passed in carrying on the propa.
gInda for a separate peace. Lewis
says that he holds evidence that such
funds were deposited and held, in New
York banks for the Deutehes bank,
! said TO have been Bolo's employer and
i placed at the disposal Of Won Bern,
stOrff for disposal
! Hearst Was Friendly
| Other testimony ad,luced during the
! day dwelt on the. social connections
between the accused spy and the
American newspaper owner and mil
lionairr, William Randolph Hearst
! This testimony detailed the lavish en-
tertainment that Hearst extended tC
the visitor and to the subsequent din
ner which he attended where BolC
! Panha was host. At this dinner BOv--ed
aud Won Papen were also present, nr
cording to the testimony that wa,
| given.
Washington Has Evidence
Officials of the state department III
Washington declare that they have
further evidence which confirms the
case against Won Bernstorff aud thai
they have the documentary evidence il
their possession us well to show tha
he directed the expenditure of German
MONIES for Bolo and that France cur
have this evidence also.
In Newark, New Jersey, yeSterdu,
government officers raided the oflir,
and plant of the Frei ,Zeitung and ar
rested two of the editors of the pape
on charges Of publishing articles acdi
tlOus in their nature.