A NAVAL HOAX.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1910, Page 3

A NAVAL HOAX.

TTI \i 'HKLI N'( *. KX'I'S Pl' XISII I'M). [»jr KtKCTHic TKr,K(;nAi , n--corvui(JrfT. j [PKK PUKHS ASSOf:I.»TH)J.'.] (Received This D;iy. 9..'50 n.m.) LONDON', April 11. The Express slates .that n inmiln'i , of younii; iMival cfficiM's luivo he; , -!! ideiiti.'ied ?s tin; authors of the Al),Vßsiniuii.lio)ix. One'has been ei:mp'.'l!t*l to apologiso k> th 0 Com ma lu'cr-iii-Chiel', two have .siiLmi-tled to caiieiii'j;, and a I'ourtli, who is ill, smk! a havebeen pa-wlonot]. [The pnirtk'al jcke wns played upon the officers of H..M.S. Piv.adtho fhiwhip of Admiral Sir W. H. Afn.v, C.jnmiaiKliT-inChi'.'f, of the Htwne fleet. Tho ■dramivti.s prrvnnae Ave.ro five youiii!; iiilmi flii'l a youiin; Avoman, all avoll foniu'ctrd. Three of tho ywNus miw and 111 In fly AA'c-re fi reused to impersonate , Abvpihni.'in priiifes, Avhile thootiier tAVo filled tho rolfs of German interpreter and .attarh.9. The psaiitloprinces Avere shoivn everviMiino; nn the vessel, ivnd expressed thr-ir deliVhfc by exclaim iii.o; "Ilinijrn, which av.ls .interpreted to mwin "isn't it lovely." They left without ha vine; aroused itfie slightest suspicbn in anyon'es mind.]