Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-06
.BOLO' TRIAL To
REVEAL INTRIGUE
FRENCHMAN WHO REPRESENTED
GERMAN GOVERNMENT In DIS
BURSTING HUGE SUMS HAS BEEN
PUT ON TRIAL.

PARIS, France, February Elm
bringing to trial Paul Bolo, or Bolo
Pasha, the French government is en-
deavoring to disrupt the whole sys-
tenn of German intrigue and propa-
ganda In France which, in the spring
Of 1917 became so bold and effective
az to threaten to defeat Frances eff
forts to carry on the war.
Bolo's case has been defined as but
one of series of inter-related incl
dents In the German effort to organize
propaganda of depression and dis
enlargement among the civilian lead
ers and soldiers of France. Those In
volved not only Bolo, the sc-called
'Levantine financier,' but also Joseph
Calliaux, former premier of France,
one OF more members of the French
Chamber of Deputies, and several
French newspapers. These newspa-
pers are alleged to have been sub
sldized by German money to spread
abroad in france spirit of defeat
| ism" a belief that there was no hope
of beating Germany and that France
should make haste to accept the best
terms possible.
AS Bolo's connection with the
scheme was the first startling develop
menti n uncovering the plot, his name
has since been applied to the whole
system of German propaganda in
France and the new word "Bolism"
| was coined.
| In the attempt to bride French
statesmen and leaders, and to influence
French opinion by substituting her
newspapers or founding new publica-
| tons to disseminate the spirit OF
patifism or defeat, it has been charged
that Germany devoted sum of money
ranging UP to or even exceeding 10,-
| 600 5000 marks Bolo, himself is said
to have had the use of fund of ST.
/ $4,000, chiefly if not wholly to cur
rupt the French press. In what way
the remainder of the currption fund
was expended had not been made clear
up to thebeginning Of 1918.
/ Partial uncovering of the plot has
Resulted not only in the arrest OF
Caillaux and Bolo but in driving out
of office of Louis j. Malvy,. formerly
French Minister Of the Interior, in the
arrest of several editors of the news
paper Bonnet Rouge and it's suppress
sion on the ground that it ha been sub
sidized to prech pacificism in the in
terest of German. One of the Bonnet
Rouge's editors VIII threatened to make
sensational disclosures was found
-strangled in his cell before he had a
chance to reveal what he may have
known Of the plot. A few other news
papers alleged to have been founded
:. iii France to spread the German peace
propaganda also were suppressed,
Bolo's activities possess peculiar in
terest to American because of-the fact
that, of the funds at his disposal, 1t is
charged that $1,6S3,000 was trans
ferred from the Deutsche Bank in
/ BeFlin to France by way of New York.
1t was as a result of discovery of his
manipulation of. this fund through
five New York banks or banking
houses that Attorney General Merton
| E. Lewis, Of New York state. was able
| to obtain information which was for
warded to the French ambassador in
Washington, NJ Jasserand, upon
which Bolo was arrested.
According to Mr.. Lewis, Count Won
Bernstorff, then German ambassador
to the United States, directed the
transfer of the $1,6SS,00 to Bolo in New
York, through the financial agent OF
the Deutsche Bank in New York 1t
was stated THAT the LlOucy N"o PAoSNN
at Bernstorff's disposal by wireless
messages in secret code In which
fictitious names were used to repre-
sent the parties participating in the
transaction.
Bolo's first appearance as a factor
in international affairs WITS as financial
adviser to Abbas Himli, who in 1914,
the beginning of the war, was Khedive
of Egypt. 1t was from the Khedive
that Bolo received his title Of Pasha
BY 1915, however, the Khedive had
been ousted and Bolo, it is said, was
pensioner of his brother, a French
priest, in 1914.
In the following year, it is asserted
the Khedive and Bolo met in Switzer-
land and, with the approval OF Colt
heb Won Jagow. then German Foreign
Minister, it was arranged that 10000
600 marks should be placed to Bolos
account to influence the French press