RURITANIAN HOAX
OBSEQUIES ENLIVENED LONDON, July 23. A well-staged hoax enlivened the obsequies of the World Conference when a ,l communique" was circulated to all delegates before the officials were able to confiscate the copies. • The document had been manifolded on official paper and was identical with the conference communiques. It was headed : “ Ruritauiaus Delegation,” and was dated April 1. It declared that whereas 1J0,000,000 unemployed need the essential commodities of life all nations of the conference agree to destroy the surplus stocks which might be used for the starving peoples and undertake to increase tariffs where complete embargoes are irnpracticah'e. The communique concluded: " The unanimous decisions on phyto-pathologi-cal questions and the spread of the cocoa plant disease justify the resummoning of the conference for April 1, 1935.” ’■The hoax delighted the conference whoso death-bed is surrounded with -witty Continental .caricatures of the forlorn Mr MacDonald wmeping over bis dying babe.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22023, 4 August 1933, Page 9
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