NEWSPAPERS HOAXED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 236, 28 June 1915, Page 7

NEWSPAPERS HOAXED.

“Sydney Telegjraph” had its leg well-nigh dislocated the other day by a wandering mariner named'Captain Miles. Under the scare headings: “Seven Sunk. German Submarines at Sv-ilhy Isles. Ham a ridable Story.” -it was told how seven German submarines had perished at the Scilly Isles. Its informant hadn't been able to bring the Singapore paners which contained the details of the engagement, “as the authorities would net allow him to.” But from memory he told a simple tale, that “the Germans had a base at the Scilly Isles, and in a cave — large enough to accommodate six submarines torpedoes, ammunition and benzine were sunk in air-tight vessels 1-1 fathoms below the water’s surface.” The Scillies are a little ground of islets and rocks off the coast;■•'of Cornwall, and because they are .about the last place on the British coast where submarines could smuggle, London “Sketch” published on April Ist I a fake photograph, showing the Scilly | cave, With the submarines lying at | anchor inside. The sum of £II,OOO ; was alleged to have been paid to the Marquis de Tire-jamble for the photograph. “Tirejambe” is dog French for “leg-pull.”,