"SECRET BREAD"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3125, 2 July 1917, Page 5

"SECRET BREAD"

COMEDY OF A MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAM. ,: The detective service, announced the:' "Daily' Mail" recently, has unravelled; what appeared to bo a food-hoarding plot. ' Tho first act of tho drama took place in ft telegraph office, where a'lynx-uyed.cen- j sor intercepted a telegram:— "Rush secret bread urgent heinemann." The telegram was at once taken to the : I War Office, where it was decided that the message should bo seut lo the Food', Controller. One can imagine the excitement in the Food Controller's office. Rumours tbere have been of secret food hoards, but here was the real trail. Here perhaps was the clue to some cammoth granary! Where was tho hoard? Whore was it to be "rushed"? Tho telegram was handed over to Scotland Yard. The finale of the drama was enacted at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning,- when Mr. C. S. Evans, manager of Mr. William Heinemann, publisher, of 21 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C'2, was informed that a detective inspector from . Scotland Yard desired an immediate interview. When the inspector entered tilts room he produced a notebook and put this question: .'

"Are you the sender of a telegram, addressed to the Whitefriars Press, Hart Street; Bloomsbury, "Bush secret bread urgent heiflemAnn'?"

If the detective inspector espected his quarry to whip our a revolver he was bitterly disappointed. The quarry kept his colour, and simply answered '*res." "Wuiit explanation have you to offer of the telegram?" was Ihe next stem question.

The telegram was to tbe printers urging expedition of a new ;;ovol by Miss F. Tennyson Jesse, entitled "Secret Broad" A copy of the boot in proofsheets was shown, to the detective-inspec-tor.