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Show "NIGHT LETTER" STYLE DIDN'T SUIT LE SAGE By United f reee. LONDON. Oct.. 10. William Le Rnge, editor of the Dally Telegraph, who haa Just been made a knight, firet broke Into Journalistic fame in Kngland through a feat of resourcefulness resource-fulness that gave hla paper a twenty-fmir-hnur scoop and knocked the pins from under his competitors. Ie Hage waa covering in aaslgn-ment aaslgn-ment at a ttrapnrt town In competition V I with a dosen other reporters, all old, S experienced heeds at the newa game. """ I When they hnd obtained the facts i they went off Into quiet corners to write their articles and on finishing, discovered that the laet train had I Ifft for London. Everybody took It . for grunted that the pece could not see print until twenty-four hours I later except La 8a aa. "After long meditation," aaye tha Dally Newa. "he resolved to aend the eeaentlala of hla story by telegraph. It waa held to be an amaslngly daring dar-ing and Ingenious coup." But of course that waa a long tlma ago. |