NEWSPAPER PIRACY.
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HOW A THIEF WAS CAUGHT.
(Received Last Night, 10. o'clock.) BRISBANE, Sept. 9.
Suspecting a leakage in its news, the Daily Mail, using scare headings published a suppositious wireless message from l>r Mawson, implying that a life-buoy of the steamer Waratah had been discovered in the ice. A few copies of the paper, containing the message, were carefully distributed. The "trap" proved su&bssful. The news was republished, together with an interview with a prominent shipping expert, who expressed the opinion that the Waratah mystery was at last solved:
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 5
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97NEWSPAPER PIRACY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 5
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