ROME.—An Amusing Story.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 29

ROME. — An Amusing Story.

An amusing story is going 1 the rounds of journalistic circles here (writes a Koine correspondent). It appears that on the occasion of President McKinley's death the European editor of a well-known telegraphic agency, closely connected with a leading New York yellow journal sent the following telegram from London — ' His Holiness Pope Pius JX , Vatican, Home Kindly tell us your opinion about President McKinley's assassination ' Jt was m> doubt a ' lapsus calami ' on the part of the luiias^ed and over-woi Ke<l London editor, but the telegraph empknees, whether desirous of j^iving the tooenterpns'inp, journalist a lesson or of having a joke at his expense, simply wired back to London the .stereoI>ped phrase ' Unknown .»t Uns address ' Yellow louinals, especially transatlantic ones, appeal to think that nothing is easier lor a Roman correspondent than to walk up to 1 lie Pope's private apartments and nilei\iew his Holiness, often on the most trifling subjects. Unscrupulous corespondents, representing, 1 am soi i \ to say, a large percentage of the fiaternity, indirectly tend to cut out, me this mistaken idea, as they in\<uiably manufacture interviews with exalted personages.