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Bolo Pasha

French traitor, executed at Vincennes, France, April 17, 1918. His real name was Paul Bolo. He lived a shady life in Paris, with no apparent means of support, except a pension received from his brother, Monsignor Bolo, an eminent French prelate. After the war had begun, however, Bolo Pasha suddenly seemed to be in possession of large funds and entered upon an expensive mode of living. He went to America, and, as it was later shown, BOLSHEVISM was in close relations with Von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to the United States. The activities of Bolo and his sudden accession to wealth had aroused the suspicions of friends of the Allied cause, both in America and in France, with the result that he was shadowed and ultimately arrested as a traitor. His trial was a sensational one.

The evidence was overwhelming and Bolo was condemned to death.

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