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Show THE POU MAKES WILD GUESS AND IS CAUGHT The following clipping from the Deseret News of a few days ago was handed us this week and it will be read with interest by many Bingham people: "An echo of one of the most famous 'soils' in American journalism reached Bait Lake last night, when the Telegram Tele-gram in screaming headlines announced announc-ed the 'overthrow of the Austrian government gov-ernment and the formation of a provisional pro-visional cabinet by revolutionary forces.' "The dispatch was ated Petrograd, The newsboys had a lively time for a while, until some suspicious people compared the statement with the A. P. dispatches in the Evening News, and found no mention of such an event. The hilarious fact now comes out that this dispatch was given out by one iM. Nelotsky, under secretary of the Bolsheviki.' Thereby hangs the tale. "The International Press Service, which furnishes the Telegram with its lurid headlines, has long been known as a faker, and a manufacturer of unreliable news. A rival press association as-sociation In New York set a trap for it, and put the 'Nelotsky story on the wires. The International promptly fell into the trap and sent it out to all its correspondents, the Telegram among others. After it had been thoroughly thor-oughly circulated, the rival press association as-sociation cooly drew attention to the fact that it was all a fake, and that the mysterious 'Nelotsky' was merely the English word 'stolen,' spelled backward, back-ward, with 'ky' added as Russian camouflage. The only mention the International In-ternational service made in its later dispatches was that the 'rumor' of the revolution was denied. The letters which pass between the victimized papers using the International Interna-tional service and the home office, would be most interesting reading if they vere obtainable." ' |