BOLO PASHA.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 17, 1 March 1918, Page 8

BOLO PASHA.

At tho opening of the court-martial of 8010 Pasha the Palais do Justice presented a striking scene with its array of prominent military men, who replaced tho ermincd judges. Colonel ,Voyer was president of tho court. Privileged spectators included many notables. A rather bzirare feature was the crowd of richly-bejewelled society women, suggesting an opera gala night scene. Bole is accused of aiding Germany in conjunction with Abbas Hilmi Pasha, former Khedive of Egypt; secondly, with receiving money from Germany, via the United States, for peace propaganda in the French press. Bolo’s accountant, Porchere Gavallini is charged with acting as an accomplice. Cavallini remains in prison at Rome, and will bo tried in his absence. Eightythree witnesses were called. The defending counsel, Maitre Salle, demanded an adjournment with a view to summoning Abbas Hilmi, Randolph Hearst, and several Turkish witnesses. The court refused, and pointed out that if Abbas Hilmi and Saddik crossed the frontier they would be arrested as accomplices, Tho indictment stated that Bolo’s career was the most amazing that the conceive. He had lost a fortune estimated at £1,200,000, apparently sought and received from German sources. 8010 admitted borrowing a million francs from Abbas Helmi, and lightly confessed that he could not say how he spent it, as he kept no books. The arrest on October Ist of 8010 Pasha, who had been well known in business and social circles for some years, followed the receipt of a cable from Hew York intimating that tho Deutsche Bank in 1916 paid £300,000 into 8010 Pasha’s accounts in American banks, and that the amount had been transferred to Paris through a French bank. 8010, who was seriously ill at tho Grand Hotel at the time of his arrest, protested to M. Painlcve, the Premier, against his removal, whereupon tho Government sent three specialists to superintend his transfer to the prison. An enormous crowd which gathered in the Boulevard swept tho stretcher bearers off their feet, shouting, “Death to all traitors.” 8010 Pasha’s brother, the famous preacher, joined in the demand for his death if he was proved guilty.