"HOSTILITIES HAVE COMMENCED."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 13411, 1 May 1909, Page 9

"HOSTILITIES HAVE COMMENCED."

! f moßi remar kable mistake in signalBag occurred on the Victorian coast ; ,ttst week. As the steamer Nairnshire It'!** t Passing Cape Otway after a 46 ii'<j*js' direct voyage from Liverpool, she ItSf* eeted "with a .set of signals from s.-^*J»«adland, which, on beans intcrv;; read "Hostilities have is-

commenced." The news created quite a sensation, but all fears were dispelled about twenty minutes later, when the signalman noticed he had made a "mistake in one of the flags, and the corrected signal, "Have holds ready for receiving frozen mutton," fluttered up the Otway flagpole.