Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-02-21
BOLO PASHA MUST
FACE FIRING SQUAD
Court Martial Takes Is Minutes
to Decide on Death
Sentence. 3
CRIME WAS TREASON.
Bolo, By Lavish Expenditure Of German
Money, Tried to Force France
into Early Peace.

Paris. Feb. 14.-Bolo Pasha was SON
fenced to death.
The court martial which condemned
Bolo Pasha to death deliberated for only
Is minutes.
Darius Porchere. an accountant who was
a co-defendant. was sentenced to three
years Imprisonment
Fflippo Cavallinie, another co-defcnd-
ant. who is under arrest In italy, was
sentenced to death. although he Is not
within the courts Jurisdiction.
When the Bolo Paaha treason trial
opened to-day Albert Sales. the attorney
for the Levantine financier, took tho
floor to make final plea for his clients
life. The crowd in the court room list
ened with spell bound attention. and with
obviously greater sympathy than had been
shown on the earlier days Of the trial.
to the lawyers impressive speech.
STRONG PLEA FOR BoLO.
Following a brief exposition Of the
adherence generally felt at the charge
Of treason Attorney SALES declared the
trial Of Bolo Pasha had raised distinct
doubts as to his guilt and that It was
his (Salles) task to change them to .
certainty Of his clients innocence.
The attorney then charged "abomin-
able 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 coun-
try.
This press campaign. NJ. Sales asserted,
had been deliberately instituted by Sena-
tor ~ - "a
Journal, after the senator had failed to
induce Bolo to sell back the stock in Le
Journal 1t half the price Bolo had paid
for II.
BOLO NOT UNNERvED.
Without the slightest tremor Bolo
Pasha. convicted Of high treason. heard
Colonel Voyer. president Of the court
martial pronounce sentence Of death upon
,, him to-day amid an impressive silence
in the court room. Merely shaking his
head and struggling his shoulders, ~
though to say 1t was hopeless to tight
against the odds, Bolo returned to his
cell.
Awed by the soldiers with fixed bayonets.
those who had gathered in the court
room refrained from all demonstrations.
but the great crowds outside the court
house emitted terrific roar and cheer
Of approval as word Of the sentence
reached them. plainly showing the favor
which the sentence Of death found among
the French people.
TECHNICAL APPEAL ENTERED.
Swiftly the news Of the coming execu-
ton Of Bolo Pasha spread throughout
the city. Colonel Voyer had not yet
completed reading the sentence when the
cheers of the multitude from outside
drowned his voice.
The court martial was unanimous in
condemning Bolo. 1t stood for a time
four to three against the conviction of
Porchere. but finally compromised, six
to one. on conviction on the charge of
commerce with the enemy" carrying a
lighter sentence. The Judges deliberated
only few minutes. and as they hled
into the court room 1t was easily discern
ible that Bolo Pasha's fate was sealed.
| An appeal will be entered on a tech
nicality. but the general trend of COM
ment heard in legal. journalistic and poll
teal circles is: with Bolo's death. Bolo-
ism will die"
Paul Bolo Pasha's 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 February 4. Bolo Pasha was
charged with having capitalized the COM
pany that bought the Paris newspaper
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 tho French investigations of
1917. and his name has come to be used
as typifying tho entire system OF "Bolism.' -
by which Germany strove to break down
the French morale and instill a desire for
peace by spreading the idea that Germany
could not be beaten and that 1t would be
we'll to make the best terms possible with
her as soon as they could be arranged.
1t had been charged that Germany. in
attempting to bride French statesmen and
leaders aand to influence French opinion
by subsidixing newspapers In France or
founding new publications to disseminate
the spirit Of pacifism or defeat, devoted a
sum Of money In the neighborhood Of II.
OO0. 900 marks. Bolo. himself. was said to
have had the use of fund Of more than
81. 800, 900 to be used in attempting to cor
rupt the French press.
Darius Porchers. a co-defendant with
Bolo Pasha. who was sentenced to three
years imprisonment. lie a business agent
who was charged with receiving CORE
spondence relating to the affair as an in
termedisry Of Bolo Pasha.
Filippo Cavallinie. who was judged by
default and sentenced to death, is a for.
mer member Of the Italian Chamber OF
Deputies. He 10 charged with having In.
troduced Bolo Pasha to Abbas Hilmi. the
former Khedive Of Egypt. and with having
facilitated the negotiations
Captain Mornet acted al prosecuting at
torney for the military authorities. Bolo
Pasha was defended by Maitre Albert
Sales. member Of the council Of the or.
der Of advocates. while Marcel Heravd ap-
peared 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 NJ. Doysn. an expert &C.
countant. were Of several hundred pages
each.
OF INTEREST TO AMERICANS.
Bolo Pasha's activities were Of peculiar
interest to Americans because It was
charged that OF the funds at his disposal
N.6SS.ooo was Transferred from the
Deutsche bank In Berlin to France by way
OF New York. It was a. q result Of the
discovery Of his manipulation Of this fund
through five New York banking houses
that the New York State Encouragement
was able to obtain information which was
forwarded to N. Jusserand. the French
ambassador at Washington. and which
brought about Bolo's arrest In Paris.
WHAT HE FOUND.