Complex sentence: Before noon, the Associated Press issued a statement that the dispatch had not come from them, and at 12.30 PM the State Department in Washington DC sent a telegram to verify that the proclamation was "an absolute forgery".
Split into simpler sentences: Before noon, the Associated Press issued a statement that the dispatch had not come from them. At 12.30 PM State Department in Washington DC sent a telegram to verify that the proclamation was "an absolute forgery".