“APRIL FOOL”
Loch Ness Monster BERLIN, April 2. “Captured at Last. Loch Ness Monster Brought to Edinburgh.” These headlines appear in the “Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung,” a weekly magazine devoted to the more stolid type of pictures, science and exploration. Under the headlinesa photograph showed a monster 100 ft. long, with a 20 ft tail and weighing 38 tons, being caught in a huge steel net on the shores of Lech Ness, with two tugboats waiting to head the monster back in case it escaped. Another picture depicted a vast crowd viewing the monster in. Edinurgh, the captain stating that an American circus proprietor’s offer of £500,000 was likely to be refused for scientific reasons. The only justification for these and other equally wild pictures was found in the magazine’s dateline. “April 1.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 98, 9 April 1934, Page 7
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