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NZ Truth, Issue 524, 3 July 1915, Page 8

i How German bluff over-reached it- , self is amusingly related by a Swiss j gentleman. Quito recently a news • agent m Mulhouse received a parcel of j copies of the "Frankfort Zeituntr" for distribution In which it was stated that the French had sufforod a grave defeat at Bclfort. 80.000 prisoners having been taken by the Germans. An hour later a telegram arrived asking for the lm mediate return of the papers, they hay Ing been destined for Mulhouse In Thuringla. not Alsace. Hut the agent had sold out, ajid the townspeople were having a good laugh at the expense of j their German ijovornors. for, Relfort beIng only a short distance away they wero all aware that the statement m the oOlclftl gazette was all lies.