The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-15
The Court Martial Was Unanimous in
Arriving at Verdict of Bolo
PaSha'S Guilt.
Evidence on Which Bolo Pasha Was Convicted
Was Secured By This Country People
Created Demonstration of Approval When the
Verdict Was Announced.

{ for the mos, general belief in France
/ before The trial that his client was
| guilty and hardly ten men convinced
Of his innocence could be found in the
country Tais press he said, had been
deliberately instituted 10y Senator
Charles HjumL ert, former owner Of lie
journal. after the senator had failed
, TO induce Bolo to sell back the stock
in lie journal at half the price Bolo
had paid for it,
Paul Bolo Pasha's court martial was
cne Of the first o-called cases Of in
jtelligence with the enemy" and came
| up for trial before the third court
martial Of Paris on February f. Bolo
Pasha was charged with having
capitalized the company that bought
/ the Paris newsp- per lie Journal with
money obtained from the Germans.
BOlo Pasha was an instrument of Ger
man propaganda one of the first TO
find exposure in the French investiga-
tons o. 1917 and his name has come
10 be used as typiyme the en- He s-
tenn Of 'Boloism" by which Germany
strove to break down The Frencn
morale and instill des re for peace
by spreading the idea that Germany
could not be beaten and that it would
be well to make the best terms pos
sibl with her as aoon as they could be
arranged
ID had been chalse, that Germany
in attempting to bribe French states -
men an1 leaders and to influence
French opinion by subsidizing news
papers in France or founding new
publications to disseminate the spirit
Of pacificism or defeat devoted a sum
Of money in the neighborhood Of ten
million marks
Bolo Pasha himself was said to have
had the use Of fund of more than
$500. 600
Darius Por here, a co-defendant
with Bolo Pasha, who was sentenced
TO three years Imprisonment, is a
business agent who was charged with
receiving correspondence relating to
the affair rs an intermediary of Bolo
Pasha
FiHppo Cavallinie who was judged
hy default and sentenced TO death is o
Eormer member cf the Italian chamber
If deputies. He was charged with
having introduced Bolo Pasha To
ADbas Hilmi the former khediye OF
Egypt. and with having facilitated the
Legotiations
Captain Mornet acted as prOsecut-
| ing attorney for the military authori-
ties. Bolo Pasha was defended by
Maitre Albert Salles, member Of the
Council of the Order OF Advocates,
while Marcel Herand appeared for
Porchere.
The files in rhe case contained no
less than 1000 separate documents,
some of which included tAe report
from America
Bolo Pashas activities We're Of
peculiar interest to America because
! il Was charged that of the funds al
approval $1,6SS000 was transferred
from Berlin 10 France by way OF New
York IL was a result OF this dis
lcoyery o. his manipulation of this fund
through five New York banking
houses that the New York state attor
Iney general was able to obtain infor-
nation VIII ch was forwarded to VI
Jusserand, the French ambassador a
Washington. and which brought about
Bolo's arrest in Paris
n Sales went lengthy into Bolos
personality and severely critized The
authorities. including General Dbail
military governor OF Paris. for whai
he termed the pre- Judgment of cast
because il ever came 10 trial. He de
clared that yeriest principles Of ele,
mentary law which pre-suppose
imam innocent until proven guilty. ha,
been disreearded
The attorney scored the prosecutor
| Captain Mornet. and Captain Bouch
ardon. of the Paris military cf9b. TO
taking mp Bolo's past aud insiste,
that the prisoner was not on trial 10
lbigamS or theft but for treason.
so far as this court martial is con
! leerned" he said, "Bolo Pasla wa
bon in 1914"
Then followed scathing arraign
ment of all prominent men an
women. once glad TO he Bolo's guests
lwho now had deserted him.