Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-14

50 good as to leave the report with
him over night, that he wished to en-
anime it carefully, and the report
was left in the French embassy. At
10 a. m. next day Morris called for
it. He was greeted by a tired look
ing ambassador, but, for all that, an
old gentleman whose eyes blazed with
the fervor which is France.
II did not get much sleep last
night, Mr. Norris" remarked Jusser-
and. Il devoted many hours to this
report. ] read it all very carefully
the information in it. ! filled six
sheets of foolscap with code and it
was cabled to France before re-
tired He reached over and picked
UP a cable from his desk. II have
received a reply this morning to my
message. Bolo Pasha has been ar
rested.
Asks Investigation Continued.
There was a moment in which nei-
Their man spoke. What was Jusser-
and thinking? Did he see. as in a
vision, a ministry falling? Were
there borne to him. ominous mutter-
ings which, even as he spoke We're
swelling in Paris? Was it polite to
continue the investigation in New
York? And then he spoke-proud-
ly that fine old Frenchman faced the
envoy of New York state.
go on he said, continue the in
vestigation, no matter whom it af-
fects. France has so many great
things to her credit that she can
stand a few things like this. If we
have a canker anywhere in our state
We will cut 1t out"
The scene changes to France--to
a France Keeling with three years of
war: to a France that had gone
through the ordeal of yerdun with
half million of her sons killed or
wounded on the field; to France in
which a sinister sensing of hopeless
ness had begun to creep abroad: to
a France which not many months
before had sent to use Joffre TO plead
with our general staff in Washington:
For Gods sake send us troops now;
to a France that had setsthe stage for
the coming of that handful of sol
diers of ours so that they might pa
rade through Paris and be seen. so
the French people would say, THE
Americans are coming; let us take
heart" 1t was to France whose
national morale was trembling to an
intangible, depressing intrigue.
1t was France that since the win
ter of 1914 had listened to socialist
speeches, that had read in pamphlets
and newspapers that the French
cause was hopeless, it was France
in which a novel, Under Fire" had
been written. attaining an enormous
circulation, the very perusal of which
was enough to make every relative
Of soldier at the front cry out to
the government. stop the war" 1t
was a France that had seen its for
mer great public official Callaiux,
go to Italy in the spring of 1915 and
disturb the Italian morale with
speeches for peace. 1t was a France
that knew it was being undermined
but was unable to get at the heart
of the intrigue against it,.
Ten days after the Attorney Gener-
al Lewis office investigation in New
York the following item appeared in
Paris newspaper:
THE Bolo affair is going to enter a
new phase. The arrest, has been de-
layed repeatedly through the difficult
ty of securing evidence against him.
Swiss banks refused point blank to
give information requested Captain
Bouchardon, however, has just re-
ceived from United States important
Information hitherto unknown here.
In consequence OF this information
Bclo was today placed under arrest"
And while in New York Morse was
digging into the German ''slush fund
the police were taking Bolo Pasha out
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