New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Bolo's Visit to
America Recalled
AS Trial Is Ended

oi intelligence with the enemy" and
came up for trial before the Third
Court Martial of Paris on February d.
boio Pacha was charged with having
capitalized the company that bought
the Paris newspaper LIE Journal" with
money obtained from the Germans.
Bolo Pacha was an instrument OF
herman propaganda, one Of the first to
md exposure in the Fr<nch investiga-
tions of 1917. and his name has come
to be used as typifying the entire sys-
TEN of "Boloism," by which Germany
strove to break down the French morale
and instill desire for peace by
spreading the idea that Germany could
not be beaten, and that it would be
we'll to make the hest terms possible
with her as soon as they could be ar
ranged.
1t had been charged that Germany
in attempting to bribe French states
men and leaders and to influence
French opinion by substituting news
papers in France or founding new pub
lications to disseminate the spirit of
paci.ism or defeat, devoted sum o.!
money in the neighborhood of 10000
900 marks. Boo himself was said to
have had the use of fund of more
than $1,000 900, to be used in attempt
ing to corrupt the French press.
Porchere Gets Three Years
Darius Porchere, CO defendant with
Bolo Pacha, who was sentenced to
three years imprisonment, is bust
ness agent, who was charged with re-
ceiving correspondence relating to the
affair as an intermediary of Bolo
Pacha.
Filippo Cavalinie. who was Judged
by. default and sentenced to death, is
former member of the Italian Cham
ber of Deputies. He was charged with
having introduced Bolo Pacha to Abbas
]lilmi, the former Khedive of Egypt,
and with having facilitated the nego-
tiations
Captain Mornet acted as prosecuting
attorney for the military authorities
Bolo Pacha was defended by Maitre AL
bert Salles, a member of the Council of
the Order of Advocates, while Maitre
Paul Guillain appeared for Porchere.
The files in the case contained no
less than 1000 separate documents.
some of which. including the American
report and the report of M. Doyen. an
expert accountant, were of several hun
dred pages each.
Bolo was born of respectable fam
lily in the South of France. His brother,
who testified for him at his trial, is a
priest and a famous pulpit orator.
At an early age Bolo manifested the
talent for tortuous practices, which
was to prove his undoing. He engaged
in several business ventures, each time
with some one else's money. Although
he left trail of failures and angry
partners behind him. he himself seemed
to prosper and emerge from each busi-
ness catastrophe little better off
than before.
His IDEALS" took him by chance to
Egypt. There a leading Partisan judge
introduced him to a confidant of Abbas
Hilmi, the then khedive, and eventu
ally he was able to approach the Khe-
dive himself The monarch needed just
such an agent as Bolo. lie intrusted
him with various pieces of secret work
in Europe. Thus Bolo came to under
stand the ways of the spy and probably
built up a large acquaintance in the
circles of the German Emperor's even
then large underground organization.
With the coming Of the war, Abbas
Hilmi was unseated by the British. He
took up his residence in Switzerland
and became one of the principal Ger
man agents in organizing secret work
in neutral and Entente countries. 1t
is now known that the former Khedivc.
acting for Wilhelmstrasse or the Great
General Staff, gave Bolo the commits
sions which took him to America and
eventually resulted in yesterdays sem
tcnce of death.
Bolos family life was as shady as his
public career. Not only had ne mar
ried one wife and cast her off for a
second, as shown in the trial evidence,
but he had stolen the wife of a friend,
a sculptor. After several years of as
sociation Bolo also tired of this woman.
She went back to her husband, who for
gave her. Now she is blind and her
Testimony to Bolo's cold -hlooded meth
ods was one of the dramatic features
of the court martial proceedings.
Interest in America
Bolo Pacha's activities were of pc
cuiiar interest to Americans, because
ii was charged that of the funds at his
disposal ST, ,GS3, 600 was transferred
from the Deutsche Bank in Berlin to
France by way of New York. 1t was
as result of the discovery of his ma
nipulation of this fund through five
New York banking houses that the New
York State Attorney General was able
TO obtain information, which was for
warded to NJ. Jusserand, the French
Ambassador at Washington. and which
brought about Bolo's arrest in Paris.
On his trip to America to obtain the
German funds he used in MS attempt
to corrupt the French press Dolo met
William X. Hearst, the American news
paper publisher. He entertained Mr..
Hearst at an elaborate dinner in a
ruth Avenue restaurant. A Paris en-
ploye of Hearst assisted Bolo in max
ing arrangements for this dinner Sew
eral other well known persons were
present besides the publisher. In Paris
Bolo cndeavored to have articles laud-
ing Mr.. Hearst published, and did sue
ceed IN getting one story Of the sort
into "Le Journal"
TO cover his tracks in his twenty
three days here last year he paid So 900
to help support Jules Bois, q patriotic
French lecturer speaking here on his
country's part of the war. and dealt
with banks closely affiliated with the
French and British governments.
With him he brought letters of intro
duction to he New York branch of the
Royal Bank OF Canada and to j. p.
Morgan & Co. His letter to the Nor
gan firm was from Senator Charles
fiumbert, then owner OF "Le journal"
or Paris He later deposited with the
Canadian bank $4,000 it is now
known he obtained from the German
government. This money he used after
his return to Paris to buy a part in
tereSt IN lie Journal" as part Of his
campaign to engineer "defeatist" prop
The letter to the Morgan firm came
from it's Paris representative, Morgan,
Harjes e. Co., and read in part:
eve think it perhaps well to add, in
view of the somewhat Oriental sonance