Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-15

Paris, Feb. 14-Witht,ut the slight, es ttremor, Bolo Pasha convicted of Thigh treason, heard Colonel Voyer, |ipresident of the com 'tmartiaI pro- I.today amid an inpres ssive silence in 1.-the courroom.
 Merely shaking his ihead and shlug- ging his shoulders, as though to say it was hopeless to fight against the odds, Bolo returned to his cell. Awed by the soldiers with fixed bayonets, those who had gathered in the courtroom refrained from all dem =. onstration, but the great crowds out | side the courthouse enGttsl a. terrific l roar and cheer of approval as word of ] the, sentence reached them. plainly 1 showing the favor which the sentence of death found among the French, | people.
 The news of the coming execution of Bolo Pasha spread swiftly through out,9the city,
 Verdict Was Unanimous.
 The courtmartial was unaniruous in i condenning Bolo. It stood for a time four to three against the conv ction of Porchere, but finally compromised, six to one. on conviction on the Charge of commerce with the. enemY' carrying a lighter sentence The julges delib- | Efled into the courtroom it was easily ildiscernible that Bolo Pasha's fate was i:sealed
 K An appeal will be entered on aftech- hnicality, but the general trend of Ecomment heard in legal. journalistic Eand political circles is: With Bolo' S Etdeath, Boloism will die"
 Final Plea. for Boio.
 When the Bolo iPasha treason trial opened today, Albert Sales, the attor- ney for the Levantine financier. took
 the floor to make Htt val pssgif Cor his
 clients life. is.
 Following a brief exposition of the abhorrence generally felt at the charge of treason, Attorney Sales declared sthe trial of Bolo. Pasha had raised
 distinct doubts as to his guilt and
 that 1t was his (SalleS) task to change
 them to a certainty of his clients in- nocence. ! The attorney then, charged an
 "abominable press, campaign against
 Bolo" with being largely responsible for the almost general belief in
 France prior to the trial that his client
 was guilty, and added that hardly ten men convinced of his innocence could
 be found in the country.
 The press campaign, M Sales as- , serted, had been deliberately instituted < by Senator Charles Humbert, former owner of Le Journal, after the senator had failed to- induce Bolo to sell back
 the stock in Le Journal at half the
 price Bolo had paid for it.
 M. Sales went lengthily into Bolo's f personality and severely criticized the authorities, including General ,Dubail 2 military governor of Paris, for what , he termed the pre-judgment of the . ] nT1nv k4, 4-.z TT
 declared that the veriest, principles ot a elementary law, which 4pre suppose a f man innocent until proven guilty. had i, been disregarded
 . The attorney scored the prosecutor . Captain Mornet, and Captain Bouch-
 ardson of the Paris military court fol
 raking up Bolo's past and insisted n that the prisoner was not on trial fol f bigamy or theft, but for treason. d So far as this courtmartial is con 2 cerned," he said, ''Bolo Pasha was born in 19141
 Arraigned Men Who Deserted Bolo.
 Then followed a scathing arraign. T ment of all those prominent men an6 D women, once glad to be Bolo's guests s wha had now deserted him..
 = M. Sales in closing was irnpressins @ as he pleaded. 'Do not condemn BolC
 Pasha to satisfy public opinion Dc
 not condemn him to satisfy public 'f passion. Do not be guilty of a mis. : carriage of justicerth that will be bitterl, - regretted in after years
 T Accused Appeared Depressed.
 Bolo appeared to be depressed dur.
 ing the latter part of M. Sales ad. n dress. He did not even brighten LII as his attorney attacked Adolph Pay. . enstedt, former head of the Amsincl l h, oF l. deposition, or when he characterized s the German embassy at Washington
 as "a manufactory of perjuries," O
 which Count Von Bernstorff, the for ,- mer ambassador, was general manager . and Pavenstedt his assistant. H, l. thanked the American government fo, 1t the help it had given France, but as ,s serted that the good faith of Ameri IS cans had been imposed upon by Ger
 man spies who were trying to say,
 their own lives.
 n Paul Bo1o Pasha's courtmartiaI wa s, one of the so-ca1led cases of 'intelli ,f gence with the enemy and came u, $ for trial before the third court martia a, of Parish on February f. Bolo Pasl
 was charged with havinng capitaliz
 ed the company that bought the news
 paper Le Journal with money obtain = ed from the Germans.
 instrument of German Propaqanda, h Bolo Pasha was an instrument O
 German propaganda, one of the frs
 to find exposure in the French in y. vestigations of 1917. and his name ha F come to be used as typifying the en . tire system of "Boloism." by whicl Q Germany strove to break down tn
 French morale and instil a desire fo | CnT0a6inO fhn idnoc ho s Germany could not be beaten and tha
 it would be we'll to make the bes
 terms possible with her as soon a
 they could be arranged,
 a Had Use of More Than $1,500,O00. ,e It had been charged that Germany .- in attempting to brine French states ,t men and leaders and to infiuenc
 French opinion by substituting newspa