FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1917, Page 5

FRANCE.

A SENSATIONAL STORY*

TRADING-WITH THE ENEMfc

EX-HAIRDRESSER MIMIONAHtB ARRESTED.

Times Service; Received Oct, 1, 9 p.m. i Paris, Sept. W. Further arrests of prominent person! on charges of communicating with tha enemy are exciting Franco. The late** I arrest is that of M. Bob Pasha, w#ll' known in business and social circles. Hul arrest followed a New York cable, intimating that the Deutsche Bank }n 1918 f'paid £300,000 into Bolb Pasha's ac* counts in American banks, which waa {transferred to Paris through a French bank. " •;

8010 was seriously ill at the Grand Hotel, and the Government sent three specialists to superintend his transfef.tb prison. A great crowd in the street swept the stretcher-bearers away and shouted: '"Death to traitors I" Bolo'a brother, a, famous preacher, joined in the demand for death if guilty. . Colo, who was formerly a hairdresser, ■established the "brand champione" and gained the friendship of the ex-Khedive, who ennobled him. He married cud .heiress and acquired a superb yill* »t Biarritz. According to the Figaro, 8010 became a millionaire in .1018, and later acquired a Share in Le Journal for £220,000. The Government recently searched Hole's residences.

The Government is disciplining T&, Monier, president of the Court of Af» ,peal, for revising Bplo's agency with L* , Journal. Inquiries are proceeding com cerning a number of other wealthy menj commercially associated with JJolo.