SCAREMONGER
ISSUES FALSE WAR NEWS. PUBLICAN FINED. (By Telegraph—'Press Assn—Copyright,.) * MELBOURNE, April 2. The first prosecutions under tho War Precautions Act resulted in a publican being fined 40s for posting a false report in front of his hotel reading : “The Runic was torpedoed in tho English Channel with Australian troops aboard.” Other men were fined 20s for spreading the report.
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Southland Times, Issue 17476, 3 April 1915, Page 6
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60SCAREMONGER Southland Times, Issue 17476, 3 April 1915, Page 6
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