Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-20
BOLO PASHA, EXECUTED FRENCH TRAITOR, SWINDLED GERMANY TO THE TUNE OF
 MILLION AND HALF DOLLARS
PARIS JOURNAL NEVER CHARGED POLICY AFTER
 ALLEGED SALE; TRIED TO BUY OTTOMAN AGENCY
Propagandst Attempted to Spread Throughout the World That Germany Was on Verge of Revolution and
 That Kaiser Would be Overthrown.

The witness told of an unsuccessful effort by Bolo in conferences with F. G. Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel Cor poration, to get the company to pur- chase the Journal but added that he believed this move was entirely cam ouflage" intended to cover up the real purpose of his visit to the United States
 Former amDassadOr Von BernstOrff assented so readily to Bolo's proposal that the German government ad- vance the money to purchase the Journal, the witness sNid, that the New York investigators proceeded on the theory that MT. Hearst might have arranged the purchase before Bolo came to the United States. On this point, however, MT. Becker said:
 T do not say today, that I consider this theory in any way established"
 The witness Said there was no evil dence of news connection between the Journal and the Hearst news papers.
 German propaganda still is at work in the United States, the state depart ment was informed today in dis patch from The Hague. A Professor Brinckmann, who directed propagan- da in this country from The Hague, during the war was said to be in charge of the present operations.
 Offiicals here assumed that the in- formation was sent from The Hague to explain the spreading of reports that the United States and the allies are not in agreement over certain issues to be dealt with at the peace confer ence.
 The report to the department saiu Professor 'Brinckmann is being liber- ally supplied with money and that a vicious anti-American document is bureau. The money to pay the ex- penses of the propaganda office is being expended through German off cial channels, according to the depart ment's statement.
 Activities of Bolo Pasha, executed as French traitor in promoting in the United States the financing by the German government of the Farm Journal and in what was described as an attempt to form news alliances be- tween the Journal and William Ram dolph Hearst's newspapers, were re- cited today to the senate committee Investigating German propaganda by Alfred l.. Becker deputy attorney gen. eral of New York.
 MT. Becker explained that his in-' vestigatiOn was made at the request of the French government to determine the culpability of Senator Humbert, proprietor of the Paris Journal, on disloyalty charge, and that enemy propaganda in the United States was disclosed incidentally. BOlo tried, Becker said, to obtain from Hearst Charles F. Bertelli. Paris cores declaration of French sympathies. who came to the United States to intro duce Bolo to Hearst early in 1916, was pondent of the Hearst newspapers. quoted by MT. Becker as having said that every American loved France and that consequently it needed no ad- vertising. After BOlo's return to Paris in May 1916, the Paris Journal pulp lished a "fulsome account of Hearst" the witness said, but otherwise no evidence of news connection be- tween the Journal and Hearst was disclosed.
 Bolo sought unsuccessfully in con- ferences with E. G. Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, to get the company to purchase the Paris Journal. MT. Becker stated in his opin- ion this move by Pasha was "entire- ly camouflage," intended to cover up the real purpose of his visit to the United States.
 MT. Becker declared the investiga- tion by the New York state authori-i ties showed that Bolo's financial acti- vities were through three American banking institutions, G. M. Amsinck and Company, the Royal Bank of Can- ada and J. P. Morgan and Company. He told the committee that German propa- ganda extended through South and Central America, Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, Spain, Holland and the Scandina- vian countries, as we'll as in all the countries at war with Germany. Becker said that Count von Bern storff agreed so quickly to Bolo's prop- osition to furnish $1,683.0O0 to pul-. chase the Paris Journal that the New York state investigators had proceed~ ed on the theory that Mr. Hearet might have arranged the purchAaA before Bolo came to tho United Statee. He added, however:
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