“BEYOND A JOKE”

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3249, 20 January 1926, Page 7

“BEYOND A JOKE”

PRIEST’S WIT RUNS TO RIOTS. MANY SUFFERERS FROM SHOCK. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.' LONDON, January 18. Many women are Isufffering from shock as ihe result of Father Knox’s broadcast riot “joke,’’ and the question arises as to the Broadcasting Company’s liability for damages. The non-arrival of the Sunday newspapers owing to the snow-block-ed railways intensified the alarm in isolated districts, where it is still believed that news is being censored. The “Daily Express” says that the company’s discreditable piece of folly might have had serious results ft It had been perpetrated at hollday-timei when the newspaper offices wdro closed because .wireless showed Itself incapable of obertaking the rumour. Th c Broadcasting Company complacently regards the outburst against iU burlesque views. It has received hundreds of appreciative letters, and says that it was mainly the Lowlanders, and not the Scottish, who failed to enjoy the joke*. The company asks: “Was it conceivable that we should immediately follow disastrous news with a jazz band? The fact fflkt a single individual was deceived is a matter of regret,, however, and wo prqmise to prevent a recurrence,”