About his guilt there could be no doubt. That he had been closely connected with people in high places as well as in low, and possessed considerable personal magnetism, was clear. All this came out in court, where persons of every grade, from Ministers and Senators to Levantine rogues and Parisian courtesans, passed in and passed out like figures on a cinema film. Bolo, of course, denied every charge, and posed as a financier of high degree, but he was condemned to death, and his appeal against the sentence was fruitless, though he pretended he could make harrowing disclosures. He met his death bravely on April 10th. His fate was a heavy blow to other spies and conspirators. There was an interpellation on the Bolo trial, a month before his execution that led to a powerful speech by Clemenceau, in which he declared that he was first for liberty, next for war, and finally for the sacrifice of everything to secure victory. He then made a vigorous appeal to the Socialists to join with the rest of the country in supporting his Government in a supreme effort to free France from the invader. "It is a great misfortune that my administration should be denounced by Renaudel"--then editor of _L'Humanité_--"as a danger to the workers. My hands are to the full as hardened by toil as those of Renaudel and Albert Thomas, good bourgeois citizens as they are, like myself. I have in my pocket a paper in which Renaudel is stigmatised as Clemenceau's orderly; nay, adding insult to injury, he is held up to public obloquy as _Monsieur_ Renaudel." Then, addressing the Socialist group, he declared with vehemence: "We have done you no harm, but my methods are not yours. You will not defeat Prussian Junkerdom by baa-ing around about peace." The appeal was quite bootless. On a division confidence in the Clemenceau Government was voted by 400 to 75. The Socialists were the 75. The vote was a direct outcome of the sordid and gruesome Bolo case. SUMMARY OF EVENTS RELATING TO TREACHERY IN PARIS, JULY, 1917, TO JULY, 1918. _July, 1917._--Clemenceau attacks M. Malvy, then Minister of the Interior, for ruinous weakness towards traitors. Assails the Ribot Ministry as responsible for the propaganda of the pro-German journal _Le Bonnet Rouge_. It was shown later that this newspaper had received State support to the extent of £4,000 a year. _August, 1917._--M. Almereyda (_alias_ Vigo), connected with Bolo Pasha, M. Caillaux and the _Bonnet Rouge_, arrested and dies in prison. M. Malvy "explains" the Almereyda affair. _September, 1917._--M. Malvy resigns. _October, 1917._--Debate in Chamber upon M. Léon Daudet's charge of treason against Malvy. Captain Bouchardon begins investigation. Proprietors of _Bonnet Rouge_ arrested. _November, 1917._--Revelations by Clemenceau in _l'Homme Enchaîné_, which had been going on for a twelvemonth, take effect on public. _Bonnet Rouge_ trial.