Valdez daily prospector., 1918-02-14

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 In bringing to trial Paul Bolo or Bolo Pasha. the French government has made it's initial attempt to disrupt the elaborate German system Of es- pionage and propaganda in the re- public, which in the spring of 1917 became so bold as to threaten to dis rupt the governments attempt to car " on the war.
 Bolo's case has been defined as but one of the inter-related incidents i'll the German system of propaganda of depression and disorganizatiOn of the French military affairs. The plot has already implicated Joseph CaillauX, a former president of France. one or more members of the chamber or de puties, and several French newspap- CTS These newspapers are alleged to have been plentifully supplied with German money to spread abroad in France a spirit of pessimism. belief that there was no hope of defeating Germany. and that France should make haste to accept the best terms possible.
 As Bolo's connection with the scheme was the first evidence discov- cred of plot, his name has since been applied to the German propaganda i'll France and the new word "BolOism was coined.
 In the attempt to bribc French statesmen and to influence French op- inion by suDsidiZing her newspapers or founding new publications to des- seminate the spirit of pacifism or de- feat, it has been charged that Ger many appropriated a sum amounting to over 1o,OOO,00O marks and Bolo is alleged to have had the use of a fund of $1,6S3. 900. chiefly if not wholly to corrupt the French press In what way the remainder of the fund was to have been expended has not yet been revealed.
 Partial uncovering of the plot has resulted not only in the arrest or Caillaux and Bolo, but in driving out of office Louis J. Malvy, formerly French minister of the interior, in the arrest of several editors of promin- ent newspapers, and the suppression of the Bonnet Rouge (the Red Bon net) on the ground that it had been subsidized to preach pacifism in the interest of the German empire. One o1 the editors of the Red Bonnet. who threatened to confess to the machina- tions of Bolo, was found strangled in his cell before he had a chance to re- veal what he may have known of the plot. A few other newspapers alleged to have been founded in France to spread German propaganda also were suppressed.
 Bolo's activities are of peculiar in- terest to Americans because of the fact that he had funds at his disposal of over a million dollars, which had been transferred from the Deutsche Bank of Berlin to France by way of New York. It was a result of the dis covery of his manipulation of this fund thru five New York banks that Attorney General Merton E. Lewis of New York state, was able to obtain information which was forwarded to the French ambassador resulting in Bolo's arrest.
 Accirding to MT. Lewis, Count von Bernstorff, then German ambassador of the United States, directed the transfer of the million to Bolo in New York. It was stated that the money was placed at Bernstorff's discretion by wireless messages in a secret code in which fictitious names were used to represent the parties participating in the transaction.
 Bolo's first appearance as factor in international affairs was as financ- ial adviser to Abbas Hilmi, who, in 1915, at the beginning of the war, was khedive of Egypt. It was from the Khedive that Bolo received his title of Pasha. By 1915 however. the Khedive had been busted. and Bolo, if is said, was a pensioner of his bro ther, a French priest.
 In the following year 1t Is asserted