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THE BOLO MYSTERY. GERMAN PLOT TO INFLUENCE

OPINION IN FRANCE:

The Bold Pasha mystery is developing into one of the most sensational spy stories of the war-

THR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25ED

RUSSIA AS I SAW IT

CHAUS AND ANARCHY

Mr. Sidney W. Coxon, who has spent four months in Russia on a trade inves tigation in the interest of a group of British manufacturers, writes in the fell Mall Gazette-

It is now clear that the whole business was a cunningly organited German plot It was my misfortune to meet thousands involving the expenditure of millions in of deserters from the South-Western order to influence public opinion in front, Lenin's pernicious doctrines had France. The princian persons concerned been spread among them by his agents, in this extraordinary drama are:- who craftily told them that the land was Abbas, the dethroned Khedive of Egypt being divided up, and that if they r Paul Holo, who was given the rank of gained where they were they would fad on their return home they were too late Pasha by the ex-Khedive.

and had been forestalled. However, in many instanors, when they did arrive home, they were forced by the villagers to return to their duty at the front

Herr von Jagow, i

ex-Foreign Minister of Germany.

Monier, late President of the Paris Civil Tribunale.

Senator Charles Humbert, proprietor of the Paris Journal, who has promptly announced that he is repaying the money advanced by Bolo, and that he Wag un:

aware of its tainted source short the

The sword of justice

cut

With such a lack of transport, the food and fucl questions have become more acute many products money is useless, as the every day. "Prjong keep goaring, and for

people are seen continually in the big stuff is unobtainable Long queues of

side provision shops, boot shops, etc. To my mind, this is one of the mon alarming features in view of the approaching winter.

career of

Bolo Pasha, Intowng waiting all through the night out-

at Paris,

(says Mr. H. d. Correspondent mentioned that & revolver had been found beneath his pillow, but I am assared that he is the last man to commit suicide a haunted with a a nervons dread of 29904

Les

Petrograd is the worst of any of the large towns in this respect, but those

sination ticulars have not yet are more to be pitied than the citizens

Although arrived from America

in

able to give some details of the charge against Bolo It wa

Was it

in February 1915 that he got in touch with the ox Khedive through Sadik Pasha, who came to meet Bolo in Rome

ronchman proposed a scheme to a Catholic Bank in Switzerland which, under the cloak of religious pro- paganda

obtain control of some Frunch

this scheme Bolo demander

Sadik consu

consulted his master, who then in Vienna. The ex-Khedive refused to back the scheme, but later went to Geneva with a woman-Thérète Hart mann--and met Bolc, who proposed a fresh scheme of buying up severed Finch papers and establishing others. There

which were several meetings at a secret code for carrying d

living on its outskirts or in dachas

themselves. An English friend of mine, married to a Bussian lady and with two children, living six miles from Petrograd, was in despair, as all the food coming into that town was commandeered by the Government. Milk, butter, and meat were unobtainable as a general rule, and one night their dinner consisted of lunga.

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some instances of prices ruling when left Russia, I may mention that a suit of clothes cost round about £20, a pair of boots £5 to £7, and so on Cabmen turn up their noses at anything under five roubles for a fare which before the war was fifty kopecks. Wood for fuel, which was seven roubles per sachen '' (7ft. by ft.), is now seventy roubles, and is expected to reach a hundred rouble, in

drafted the winter,

Sadik

The ex-Khedive was was Doctor and Bolo was Richt

always referred to as put The cx Khedive sent an emasary the scheme to Herr

One may wonder how the people exist ; but, of course their wages have been doubled, trebled, and even quadrupled, though they keep on demanding still higher increases. The result is that fac-

terns, to Berlin to advance £60,000 per month for ten months. This offer was made to Bola st Zurich, where the ex-Khedive care wifh Perhaps it is u

von Jagon Minister promised to tory after factory is closing down.

his mistress, Lasang Bext Erzberger Bouchardon, who is responsible for the

mere coincidence

at same time, staying

brought

home to him. Captain

conduct of the case, as the representative military judicial authorities, made

wasther fotel under a false-name the a. of the aportary stain do noriminating

At this meeting Bolo accepted the Khedive's monthly offer, but said that the evidence required from Switzerland, Ame- money was frauficient. There, whs & The rigs, and offer countries, but he met with delay before the ex-Khedive received many obstacles, several of them inherent money from his German masters Before in the circumstances

handing it over to Bolo com is Allied country; however, matters were ex-Khedive Once the United States became an and Sadik deducted £4,000 sion.

In a landing article in his paper, the facilitated, and elaborate inquiry was

set on foot in America, with the result Journal, MHumbert promises to repay that

Boucharden was handed by

the money which he received from Bolo the Min and to anmul his contract stated last, as the cablegram, which

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SOLO'S BEADY CAREER

Bolo's career has been that of a typical adventurer, who, with various set-backs, has experimented in most strata of social life in France. He was a brilliant sto

a in any

fessions, but he preferred to engage in fraudulent business transactions. He cheated even his victims to whom he pre- commissions, changed his

of an inqu

made by the American police at certain banks, it was clear that varioóns, sums,

alling

ng £320,000, were paid in daring year 1916 16 accounts in the name Paul Bolo, living in the Rue de

Phas

mised eventually, owing to the wat Bonzon, who got

to be released from his eight months

Berlin. A large part of this money had already been forwarded to Bolo

Paris through the medium of a French bank. Curiously enough, before Belo's

had He

his counsel Matt himself in the position

of & wealthy

Modelending Turmel, in Paris. He was ap to appeal to man about town

ва Minister of parently the son of a small notary and War, and therefore as the supreme head was educated at Marseilles, where of military justice, to cause him either ahowed brilliant promise, but he the idea of entering a legitimate sion, and became a shady company pro moter. His first enterprise was in when he induced a restaurant proprieter M. Painlevé, however, refused to se to secure a couple of pleasure schooners Maitre Bonzon, and the latter thereupon tores The business was a failure covering letter of his own, in a

live lobsters from Corsica to enclosed Bolo's letter to M. Painlevé, Marseilles Bolo's subsequent career is somewhat ob

torture or to be brought before the

Judges where he would have the right of public explanation.

with

and the restaurant keeper lost his money.ed envelope. In this letter registe

scure.

Ho

is said to have been an assis by warning M. Painlevé that he would see the unfortunate consequences

agency

SOON

special

Inspector

was

tant in a women's hairdressing establish that might be entailed by his refusal to very and a clerk in a money exchange see him anor of the Parts Mili office.

Then he set up a bogus a sacramental wint, offering a special com-tory District, had received orders from M. Bouchardon to inform Bolo that be mission to priests. His system, however, was to take payment in advance and then was formally arrested M. Priolet went

to the Grand Hotel, where

Bolo to deliver the wine, with the result

staying

had been that he spent a month in prison. Having

and where he

confined torved his sentence he went to Spain, and bed for some days, and carried out.

his instructions, poeting two name of Pablo Berner, and later

Inspectors travelled in Africa In 1902, feeling in Bolo's room and two at the door, with

orders

bo bis

that no one should allowed to paat was for

then arrived at the hotel and clamouzed forgotten, be

communicate with him Maitre Boazon

not

convinced that

returned to Marseilles, where he took rooms in one of the most EXTENSIVE

and attempted to float ver

Various schemes. His plans miscarried, and be had to

for admission to his chest, which was refused him.

A

1118 luggage behind him and go to Lyons, He then went to the Palais de Justice

At

that

he set up as a dealer in chon and delivered to M. Bouchardon & letter in partnership with a Baron Steifeld, but though he indulged in a 5gned by Bola, asking him to interrogate a him at the earliest possible moment. 11. well-advertised campaign the business did Bouchardon then granted Maitre Bonzon not succeed. He pe

persuaded his superior Lyons was a place too small for hir theo to see his client. At about the same time Monseignior Bolo, brother activities, and was given 100,000 francs of the Leeused man, arrived at the Grand to set up in Paris in the Rue Halévy Hotel, and, like Maitre Bonton, was first There instend launching the cham refused admission, but later received per pagne business, he announced that

that he had

mission from M-Bouchardon to visit his married a rich heiress, and simply desert-brother In his interview with

with ed the Arm that had financed him. He Bouchardon, Monsignor Bolo said lie had in

in fest married a widow with £3,000 refused to believe that his brother could year at Bordeaux, and, thanks to her be guilty of the facts alleged against him, money, was able to live well as a man adding that if he was guilty he would of means

have to answer to the justice of men and Until 1911

1011 aparently

he had no further of God: connection with the wine trade, but when in the spring of that year there trouble in the Champagne vineyards went down to the district and preached to t the wine growers that prosperity easily he won by dest

destroying the owners, and forming a huge co-operative company. Such at any rate was the planation he gave to the wine but the Mutta points out that

in Champagne

the riots me were serionaly

French German firms there were care

The new wine growera

like Bolo's other enterpr

the war broke out be

tunata "inancial positio

other debts one of £20,000

there POPULAR DEMONSTRATION.

News of the arrest, got abroad, and a crowd of some three thousand prople "as- sembled outside the hotel, and when so- cused vas brought out on a stretcher and placed in an ambulance there were cries of A mort le

gort le trafire: A mort. A bas trait sibly stfected.

olo wan down Ther

were several rushe but precautions had been he was driven away to the rmary at

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