A GREAT HOAX.
CAUSED BV WIRELESS
[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.!
LONDON. Jan. 18.
The “Weekly Dispatch” states that practically the whole country was seething all night with sensational rumours of a great red riot in I ™ * ' ga r Square with the march of the masses on Whitehall and the destruction of big men. a misunderstanding which resulted in one of the greatest wireless scares in the history of easting. It arose through the detective relaying of a humourist. I'at.ier Ronald Unox’s imaginative talk broai - casti.m “The Barricades” from luhnwhich many mistook m the official news bulletin. Unary stories spread like wddh.e tli.it . great revolution had commenced and everybody knew it was true because they had heard it officially by w,.eIvss Some even bad heard of the bombing of the Savoy Hole l as part f the broadcasting eo.npa.o s alis n since effects. The ‘‘Dispatch aid other newspaper offices were so on - undated with frantic enqt." .es I ■ ! ther information. The iievvspape.[ pressed on the company that the cn m t'V was genuinely alarmed and the company broadcasted an a oology explaining that many listeiieix bat I ' nth- missed the preliminary P‘ L r,iox’s bulletins were PUM-b .til"* 1 ”-
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1926, Page 3
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199A GREAT HOAX. Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1926, Page 3
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