Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-15

The followed a scathing arraign-
ment of all those prominent men ana
women, once glad to be Bolo's guests
who had now deserted him.
NJ. Sales, in closing, pleaded:
DO no. condemn Bolo Pasha to sat
jssy public opinion. Do not condemn
him TO satisfy public passion. DO not
be guilty of a miscarriage or justice
that will be bitterly regretted in after
years"
Bolo appeared to be depressed our
ing the latter part OF NJ. SALES ad-
dress. He did not even brighten up
as his attorney attacked Adolph Pa
venstadt, former head of the Amslnck
Banking House in New York. for his
disposition or when he characterized
the German embassy at Washington as
''manufactory OF perjurers," OF which
Count Won Bernstorff, the former am
| bassador, was general manager. and
Pavenstadt his assistant. He thanked
i the American government TOR the help
| it had given France, but asserted that
| the good faith of Americans nad been
| imposed upon by German spies VINO
were trying to save their own lives.
| Paul Rolo Pashas court martial was
one of the first of the so-called cases OF
"intelligence with the enemy and came
up for trial before the third court martial
Of Paris on Feb. T. Bolo Pasha was
charged with having capitalized the COM
| pany that bought the Paris newspaper
lie Journal with money obtained from the
Germans.
Doll Do, oil, Ctl-1tt If
man propaganda, one of the first 10 find
exposure in the French investigation or
| 1917, and his name has come to be used
in typifying the entire system of "Bolo-
ism by which Germany strove to break
down the French morale and nstll a
desire for peace by spreading the ide,
that Germany could not be beaten and it
would be we'll to make the best terms
possible with he" as soon as they could
| be arranged.
! 1t had been charged that Germany In
t attempting to bride French statesmen
and leaders and to influence French opin-
! ion by Substituting newspapers in France
or founding new publicat tons to dissent
nate the spirit of pacfiSm or defeat, de-
voted a sum of money in the neighbour
! mood OF IU,NU,VpO marks. BOlO nlmSefy
was said to have had the use of a fund
of more than 81, 800 600 to be used in at
tempting to corrupt the French press.
| Dirius Porchere, a co-defendant with
Bolo Pasha, who was sentenced to three
years imprisonment, is a business agent
who was charged with receiving CORE
spondence relating to the affairs as AZ,
! intermediary of BolO Pasha
Phillio Calvilnie, who was judged by
default and sentenced to death, is a for
mer member of the Italian Chamber of
Deputies. He was charged with having
introduced Bolo Pasha to Abbas Hlmi,
the former khedive of Egypt, and with
having facilitated the negotiations.
! Bolo Pasha's activities were of peculiar
| interest to Americans because it was
charged that of the funds al his disposal
81, $4,000 was transferred from the
Deutsche Bank in Berlin to France by
way OF New York. 1t was as a result OF
the discovery OF his manipulation of this
fund through five New York banking
houses that the New York state attorney
general was able to obtain information
which was forwarded to NJ. Jussel1nd,
the French amba ssador at Washington
and which brought about Bolo's arrest
lin Paris.