AMAZING SPY AND BRIBERY STORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1917, Page 7

AMAZING SPY AND BRIBERY STORY.

| —»— I KAISER'S MILLIONS SHED LIKE' i i WATER. I Barber who became pasha, plutocrat, and plotter in two hemispheres, London, Oct. 7. Even more astounding than the revelations during the war-years of the mach- j inations in Russia of the arch-intriguer Sasputin are the stories being told in Paris of 8010 Pasha. * ThU Turkish (or, rather, Egyptian) Pasha, is really an obscure Frenchman, once a barter, who became a millionaire. He was given his title by the traitorous Khedive whom Britain dethroned in the first year of the war. For a few days 8010 Pasha has been in a French ganl—hunger-striking. He is accused of having received millions of German money in order to try to buy the Paris Press and Tun a campaign .to induce France to make ft separate peace with Germany. Attempts to suborn the American Press are also Alleged. So faT as we know they were, as here, all vain. 8010 had millions; !but even those who (not in America but in thi9 nemisphere) borrowed his hundreds of thousands kept their right to direct their own policy—not suspecting that be was other than a French-patriot. He wa9 a native of Marseilles. The State Department at Washington yesterday published an amazing series of telegrams which link 8010 with the activities of Count BernstorfT in the United States. ALL THE" TALES OF BOLO. ADVENTURER IN TWO WORLDS AND ONE HUNDRED GUISES. Paris, Oct. 1. It was a cablegram from the New York Police announcing tbe discoverv of a payment of £400,000 made to Bob by ,the Deutsche Bank, Berlin, while he (Bolo) was in Paris which led to the arrest of the Pasha.

Our Transatlantic Allies, who have distinguished themselves for the zeal with which they have hunted down the dark •and nebulous in German diplomacy, have discovered the true source of Bolo's incredible wealth, as well as his leal objective. Four hundred tnotmnd pounds was paid into nine different American l»ank9 to his credit and transferred to France. The object of these colossal sums was the purchase of French opinion. . That this campaign failed does not seem to have been the fault of the fantastic 8010, for his hospitality was great, hia relationships extremely respectable, and his wealth undoubted. He "cut a dash" in Parisian Bociety.

I Not onlv had he the advantage of a brother hieh-placed in the hierarchy of tbe Church, but tho personal friendship of M. Monier, president of the Paris Appeal Court. This gentleman seem? to have been convinced of Bolo's ."bonafides." and to have heen ignorant of his spurious past. M. Monier will now have nn ojpportunitv of personal explanation for his "protection" of this amazing creature for he has been summoned before his brother judges of the High Court to throw light on the occurrence. CONSPIRING WITH BERNSTORFF. To-day we have revelations from the Attorney-General of New York State, Mr. Merton E. Lewis. These show that when a scheme was completed to supply 8010 secretly with great sums of German moncv, 8010 sailed for New York, arriving there on February' 22, 1910. His movements there arc being traced. He clandestinely visited B«nstorff, the Kaiser's envoy; and Bsriistorfi" instructed Hugo Schmidt of the Deutsche Jank in America, to credit tho Pasha with one and :,vo-thirds dollars (about £333,000). The figures in hundreds of thousand of pounds which concern Bolo's juggleries between the Berlin source of his wealth, United States and Canadian Bank, and the French capita), are too intricate to be given in full here? ROMANCE OF CHICANERY. It ie the picturesque side, rather than the graver issue which is now being conI sidered by a court of inquiry, that ap[peals to the Paris people generally. There is something in the atmosphere of this delightful city which incites the imagination of financial huntsmen and stimulates the fancy of the speculative conjurer. There is no centre on earth which has provided so dazzling a succession of knights of the road, who arrive at place and power by some extraordinary trick of fortune and then come tumbling down again. There was once a lady named Therese Humbert, whose fortune consisted of a button-hook found in her famous safe and of unlimited powers of invention, Yet by suggesting millions in front of an empty safe, she contrived to reach a high prosperity—for a time. A WORLD ADVENTURER. 8010 is, apparently, of the Humbert order, save that whilst "la Grando Therese" (as she was called), worked for her own hand and family, the latest addition to the list of Fakirs was, as far as can be seen, an agent of Germany. Paul 8010 has been in turn, during the past three decades, ladies' coiffeur, stoek- : broker's agent, guinea-pig, promoter of wild-cat companies, gaol-bird, founder of [a bogus company for the supply of Sacramental wines, adventurer in Spain, in■cognito traveller in Africa, champagne merchant, millionaire in Paris Society, recipient of German gold poured out from Spandau coffers for spy purposes,' defendant in a long judicial inquiry into his antecedents, hunger-striker in gaol (the latest phase of his phantasmagorlcal career), PROBITY OF PARIS PRESS. I would like to make clear some facts wbich have been rather perverted concerning Bolo's connection with the Paris Press. iSenator Humbert, director of the Paris Journal, has, since the exposure, announced his intention to reimburse the five and a half million francs ( £220,000) which Bola Pasha invested in that newspaper", and to break the contract binding the paper and 8010. M. Humbert explains that the contract stipulated that the sum invested obtained for 8010 a co-proprietorship with Jilm IM. Humbert) of 10)0 shares in. the Journal, but »it M. Humbert should have unrestrained liberty in all matters connected with the policy of the paper, 8010 having no right to intervene save In purely business or financial details. The senator relate? that he raised the money from 8010 at n time when lie had to carrv on ft keen struggle to defend the Journal.

"Before this elianw," At. Humbert savs. "I was not able to return the monev, but to-dav I no longer have the risht to

wait until the time specified in the cbn- !. tract, and I am returning the money." It should be mentioned here that there lias never been the suspicion of a pacifist campaign in the Journal. On the contrary, that paper has been ardently patriotic all through the war. But Paris wan disconcerted when it learned that "the paper that got the guns"—for Senator Humbert lias preached munitions in season and out of it was being partly financed by this extraordinary conspirator. "Are the wells of national existence poisoned?" asked some commentators in despair. But all recognise that M. Humbert's honor and that of his paper are intact. Senator Humbert has still his withers nnwrvmg. He has returned'the suspected cash, and his honou is intact. Certainly, the .paper has shown no wavering on the war, and the Rappel. which has imitated the Journal's example and restored the 8010 funds has been every Whit as eager on the right side. It is hinted that 8010 tried to buy control in the "Figaro," hut failed,. .SECRET CODE. Bolo's energies were, not confined to France; they ranged over most of the countries of Europe, and over the New World as well. We have a series of cable code words used' -by the intriguers, so that 8010 could receive instructions from his Ger: man masters (through their Egyptian agents), without arousing suspicion Thus:— "M, Richt" (or Mr. Bight) meant 8010. "Marie Sudik'.'—the Khedive. "The Doctor"—The Khedive's agent. "William Foxley"—Berlin Foreign Office. ' ' "Chas. Gledhill"—BernstorfT. The cypher cable, "Mario will only hand samples to M. Richt," meant that 8010 was getting restive for money, had sent u third party to obtain it, who had failed, and then was assured that he could only have it by applying in person to the Khedive. "BUY PEACE FOB. £ 340,000." ENEMY'S VAIN ATTEMPT TO BRIBE FRANCE. Washington, Oct. fi, The State Department has issued, in the form of a statement, the text of telegrams exchanged between Count Bernstorff, late German Aml>assador >.oro, and yon Jagow, the former German Foreign. Minister.

The first, which is dated February 2(1, l'9lfi, from BernatorlY to the German Minister, was as folbws:— I have received direct information from an entirely trustworthy source ' concerning political actio: in one of our enemy countries which would bring about peace. One of tho leading personalities of Cic country In question is .seeking a loan of 1,700000 dollars (£340,000) in New York for which security is offered. I was for- | bidden to give his name in writing. Tho affair seem§ to ie to be of the greatest possible importance. Can money be provided at once in New York? I request an answer by telegram. A verbal report will follow as soon a.* a trustworthy person is found to bring it to Germany (Signed) BERNSTORFF.

The second telegram cited (Feb. 29) sives the reply of Herr von Jagow: I quite agree to the loan, but only if the pence actions seem to you a really serious project, as the .provision of money in New York is for us at present extraordinarily difficult. If the enemy country is Russia, have nothing to do with the business, as the sum of money is too small to havp a serious effect in that country, '."' ie same is true in the ease of Italy, where it wo"-ld not be worth while to spend so much. (Signed) JAGOW. "VERY PROMISING AFFAIR." On March 5 BernstorfT cabled as follows to Herr von Jagow:— Please instruct Deutsche Bank to hold nine million marks ( £450,000 at pre-war exchange) at the disposal of Hugo Schmidt (Vie agent of the Deut-. sche Bank in ' United States). . The affair is very promising. Further particulars foIIow.—BERNSTORFF. On March 20 Jagow received the following message from the Count; — Please advise our Minister at Berne that someone will call on him who will give the password "Sanctregis," who wishes to establish relations with the Foreign Office. The intermediary further requests that influences, may be brought to bear upon the Press to pass over the change in the inner political situatiori in France as far as possible in silence, m order that things may not be spoiled by German approval. (Signed) BERNSTORFF; The final telegram from Jagow, dated May 31, is as follows: The person announced in your telegram of March 20 has not yet reported himself at the Legation at Berne. Is there any more news on vonr side of Bolo? (Signed) JAGOW.