Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-18
BOLO PASTA TOOL
OF BERNSTORFF'S
Money Which Led TO Adven-
turer's Undoing Passed to
Him by German Envoy.

The traitor, Bolo pasha, who was shot
to death by the French government
yesterday, Ind been convicted on vari-
ous counts Of having organized defeat
is" propaganda ~ Trance with German
money mainly derived through the cx~
khcdivc of Egypt and the German am
baasador at Washington
Ills nrrpcal from the sentence was re-
iccted bv the Court of Revision on March
II. but the sentence by shooting, whlrh
was To have been executed at Vincenues
on April g. WAS postponed ~ the last
moment on account of n confession made
hv the prisoner impiicatlng others a
petition for pardon made with the con
icssion was refused by President poincarc
Paul Bolo, 10 give the man his right
name. wa4 poor when the war began. =
pcnsinncr of hig brother Mgr Bolo, .
prclate of Paris Bolo's first appearance
in international affairs was ~ financial
ndverr to Ahhas lIlmi, then khedivc
of Egypt from whom he received the
title Of "pasha
Thc most conclusive evidence of i}olo's
reasonable aetiv ties came from America
II was shown that 81 ,GS3. .0O0 WAS trans
ferrcd af tho recommendation ot Count
Won Bornstorf the German Ambassador
III " I&ftnHtttN tffUit lttt ttt-fttf NV 1fAttH
of Berlin ia France bv way ~ New York
II WINS ~ a result of the discovery II his
nIauipulations af thus fund through five
New York banks TINT Atiorney-G Gcncrd
Merton T. IcWis Of New York State was
able 70 obfain information which was for
wardrd 10 the French Ambassador ~
Washington and caused Bolo's arrest
According to Mr. Tcwle the transfer
of the rnonev was made by wrcleea he
tween the German government and its
anlhasa:sdor hc lattar remaining m
ignorance n 70 Who was 70 receive the
money ~ New York. hut not as ~ thc
purpose for which Il WAS destined ~
trnnce. principally tho purchase u
tho Paris ncwspaucr. lie Journal, Tor
German propaganda
II journal was only ono If the pa
irintle papers which 5olo acquired nr
irIed to acquire lie madc an offer of
8i0O 900 for lc Figaro. bought ] 800
sharca IN IL Rappe for S34 900. and
even approached Clemenccaus tiomme
Inchalne Papers he got control over
included PARIS MIDI, IT, tri de PARIS. a
satirlca weekly. and In Revue If whtch
Jean finot is editor The curious thing
about the method employed to make
theso newspapers serve German inter-
c~ts was that under Bolos control thcv
became cxponcnts of dcfcatisru carried
e. tho extreme of ultra French miitarlsfn
hr 9 yp|anatfon i that the German war
party could lIse quotations from ihc B0lo
papers to persuade the Germs an people
that ther existence wa threatened by
the French, thereby justifying he t,cr-
man government and rckindlng il tho
people tho war fcrvor which was fast
oozing out ot them Then, when the
opporttIne moment camc, the same ultra-
patriotic papers, 50 il was expected,
would suddenly turn pa' fist and thereby
STIR III dlsscnsion in the nation and de
stroy the efficiency of It's war measures.
POLO : career was cut short before he
had q chance To carry out this part of
the program More important than
Bolos trial, sentence and death Is be-
hcved To bc tic case Of Joseph CaIlIaux,
former prime minister Of France who
Is also accused Of treason, but against
whom 80 far the evidence IL not 50 con-
elusive Owing to his political lntlu-
encc II j. expected that the trial Of all
laux VII produce lar more excitement.