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“WHISPERING GALLERY” A HOAX PUBLISHERS ADMIT BLUNDER BOOK TO BE DESTROYED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Sydney “Sun** Cable.* (Received November 22, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. “We have been the victims of a most ingenious hoax,” is the salient sentence in a signed statement which two directors of the publishing firm of John Lane personally handed to the editor of the “Daily Mail” tonight. They explained that the transcript of “Whispering Gallery’* reach€u (hem through a literary agent, who declined to submit tests which the directors suggested with > a view to determining the authenticity of the book. The directors admit that the “Daily Mail’s” exposure was justified, and that the book should never have been published. They are destroying every copy obtainable. Passages from the book were published in the “Times”- of Saturday.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 7
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133DISCREDITED New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12611, 23 November 1926, Page 7
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