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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10147, 21 September 1898, Page 5

"WE PILFER THE NEWS." While actual warfare was proceeding in Cuba, a lively journalistic combat raged between the " New York World "and the "New York Journal." The "Journal" began to suspect that the " World" was annexing its news, but took no notice until the •' World," as they say, became "sassy." So one bright morning the "Journal" took the words ** We pilfer the n».ws," arranged' half the letters baok wards to'read " Reflipe W. Thenuz," and saddled the name on an Austrian colonel who had never lived. In the " Journal" that day appeared the notice that Colonel Reflipe W. Thenuz was killed. The " World," to quote the "Journal," "snapped ;at the bait as a hungry dog snaps at a bone, and after dressing, it up in the form of a special cable despatch, and dating it 'On board the • World's' despatch boat,' announced boldly next day that * Colonel Reflipe W. Thenuz' was dead." Poor fellow ! In other words, if those letters were read properly, "you learn from the .* World's' own month ' We pilfer thd news.'"