THE LIE OF THE CENTURY.
It is remarkable that that unhappy individual the English newspaper reader ha* not demanded the names of the oriental culprits in .the Chinese cable scandal. It Should not be enough for him that the editorial staff in London is proved to " act in good faith"—i.e., swallows everything wired to it wholesale. And so it is interesting to find the ' Kobe Chronicle,' a. Japan paper whose forte has for years been the exposure of bogus telegrams, declaring that suspicion in connection -with the authorship of the recent fabrications narrows itself down to one or two persons well known in Shanghai. A people witli the inventive genius of the Chinese can hardly be blamrd for selling untruths to anyone foolish enougli to buy them, but the English public and Press "should be protected against being ever taken in by the said purchasers again. Their names should be published. A man who telegraphs without verification rumors be picks up from hearsay in the Far East is not a fit and proper person to hare anything ro do with journalism. The " Rhnnghni rumors " were actually not thought, worth publication in Shanghai itself at the time when they were convulsing London and the whole Unitedi Kingdom.— f3t. James's Gazette.'
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Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 2
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209THE LIE OF THE CENTURY. Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 2
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