TRIAL OF BOLO

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 8 February 1918, Page 5

TRIAL OF BOLO

INDICTMENT AND DEFENCE. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received February 7, i p.m.) PARIS, Fob. 6. The indictment of 8010 Pasha states that after the Rattle of tho Manic, Germany, finding her sudden attack hud no longer any hope of success, desired rapprochmeait with France in order to be able to defeat Britain. It was necessary to prepare public opinion for a separate pence. Bolo's mission was by means of cleverly .disseminated reports to show that Germany was prepared to make large sacrifices in money ,and also to create pessimism in order to cans- 1 confusion, and to disturb the patriotic agreement between the French parties. The indictment also states that 8010 had lost .a, fortune of £1,200,000 sterling, which he apparently sought and received from German sources.

Bolo's defence was that he was the victim of a plot. < Pressed regarding his monetary transactions with the ex-Khedive of Egypt, he stated that the ex-Khedive got into deep water, and 8010 lent him a million francs for his abdication.

Regarding the £IOO,OOO he had received from New York, 8010 declared that the money was his, and that he invested it in Antwerp and Hamburg before, the war, in order to escape tiie threatened income tax.

A PRETTY CHARACTER, <' l 'The 'times.") (Received Last .Night, 8 o'clock.) PARIS, Feb. 6. 8010 maintained an attitude of nnincliausenlike audacity '. He declared that he associated with the exKhedive solely to induce him to abdicate. He added: "He placed his Crown at my disposal." 8010, when cornered, declared that the hostile witnesses were liars. He claimed that he still possessed a fortune of £560.000. He said it was useless for the prosecution to try and trace it. The indictment against 8010 delineates him as a fascinating libertine, a cajoling feline philanderer, a bigamist, a gambler, ah extravagant liver, and an unscrupulous business adventurer who conquered women with his silken moustache and fondling eye. He won their devotion despite his cruelty and infidelity. He imposed on business men by his clever cynical audacity and self-confi-dence. After bigamously marrying a rich widow of a Bordeaux wine merchant he, launched out on a life of wild business speculation and social pretensions. He promoted businesses in various parts of the world, but they all failed. EXCHANGE OF GOODS AN ARRANGEMENT PALLS THROUGH. (A.—N.Z Cable Assn. and Reuter.) (Received Last Night, 8 o'clock.) BERNE, Feb. 6. The Buda Pesth Chamber of Commerce announces that the arrangements for an Austro-Russian exchange of goods on the Hungarian frontier has'produced nothing.